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Fayettev,ille dedication (See page 12)

Executive Board

Stewardship e mphasis THE churches in Bartholomew Asso­

ciat ion are emphasizing stewardship. Under the . leadership of Rev. Don

1 Williams, s u p e r i n-tendent of missions; Rev. W. E. Speed, associational stew­ardship chairman; and the moderator, Rev. Jesse Holcomb, 17 churches in Bar­tholomew are taking a new look at stew­ardship.

Beginning last Sat­urday evening with

OR. DOUGLAS dinner at Warren for all the church -leaders, the churches had a different speaker at each service Sun­day, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings.

The majority of ·t he speakers were laymen who are good stewards in their local churches. They presented every phase of stewardship, especially sys­tematic giving and the Forward Pro­gram of Church Finaince.

We are looking forward to a good re­port, because we believe that this will help the church members in Bartholo­mew Association to become better stew­ards of the mysteries of the gospel.

':!'Jie following churches and pastors participated in the campaign:

Corinth, Hbrace E. Gray; Ebenezer, Ralph 0 . Wilson·; Enon, Leroy Brady; Florence, Horace E. Gray; Holly Springs, Bobby W. l\Jeggs; Ladelle, Jack Ferguson; Marsden, L. J . Tucker; Monticello, First, Jeff Cheatham· Mon­ticello, Second·, Jesse ·Holcomb; 'Monti­cello, Northside, Edward Elrod· Pleas­ant Grove, James Heflin; P ~ a i r i e Grove, S. D. Wesson; Selma, Raymond Johnson ; Warren, First, W. E. Speed; Warren, Immanuel, Dean E. Newberry, Jr.; Warren, Westside,, and Wilmar, Joe Warbington.- Ralph Douglas, Associate Executive Secretary

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 VOL. 61, NUMBER 85

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Pet peeves of an old preacher By PETER PAULUS

F IFTY and more years in the ministry have led me to be a little cranky about some things which occur in church houses. They have made me keenly aware of the difference between what is correct, hence most effective, and what is crude and harmful. So, with a deep-seated desire to help my fellow preachers and teachers, I mention some of the things that annoy me.

Seth, not Sayeth. "Saith," an archaic form of "says," · is . given numerous times in the Scriptures, and it peeves me to hear it pronounced "say-eth." Webster declares that the correct pro­nunciation is "seth," which is ,easier to say than "say-eth."

Trav-al, not Travale. A word ·used by the Master as a synonym of spiritual suffering is "travail." It is pronounced "trav-al," almost as if it were spelled "trave1." The accent is always on the first syllable, whether noun or verll>. So in speaking of the "travail of the soul" let us pronounce it correctly- "trav-al" of the soul, not "tra-vale." "He will see of the trav-al of his soul and rejoice." He "lrav-aled" in pain until the day,'. ' not "trav-aled."

A-dult, not ad-ult. While both pronunciations are now given by rnme dictionaries, the older form., J'a-dult" is preferable, the accent, whether noun or adjective, peing on the second syllable. Certainly it has a :inore agreeable sound as may be "felt" by repeating, "There were t en a-du lts in the a-dult class, as against "ten ad-ults in the ad-ult class." [And the "a" is not long, but short.-ELM]

This-smornin'. Twenty-five times during a sermon and prayer of a morning service the minister repeated the time expression, as if it could be any other par t of the day! And almost invariably, speakers pronounce it "this-smornin'."

Loud Socks: Another peeve of mine iR to see a minister, sitting on the ·J)latfor m with fancy socks showing, especially when there is a band of bare leg between the sock and the trouser cuff. Proper dress for the pulpit is always .simple, dark colors-solid black, charcoal gray, or blue- immaculately white shirt, · tie of dark solid color with little. decorations, and black shoes, shoes really shined. For informal gatherings, tan suit, with shoes and accessories .to match is all right. But to see a tan coat above gray trousers an~ red shoes, and loud plaid socks makes one forget the message while wondering. ab<rnt the masquerade.

Repetition of Titles of Deity. This has become a very common error in churches of all kinds. One wonders why, in addressing God in prayer, it is felt needful to repeat his titles from fifteen to fifty times in a brief period. Is that not vain repetition? How many would continue doing this if they would learn with the Apostles how to pray? (Matt. 6 :5-15).

Pulpit Profanity. During a recent trip across Alabama I heard a radio message delivered by an evangelist. So offended was I that I wrote the station, reminding them that the Federal Communications Commission had a rule against profanity over the a.fr. Ten times the preacher exclaimed, "My God!' '. and it was an · ejaculation; in no sense could it be called reverent.

Later, in a church house, I heard a preacher make the· same profane use of the expression, and the tragedy of i,t was that a five-year old lad was surprised when he was :repl"imanded for using the same expression, in much the same tone of voice.

Habits are, readily formed; why not refuse to let bad habits control one while · speaking for the King of King's.~ He deserves the best his disciples can be and do .and say; surely he is not

, exalted by any crudities which his servants may allo,w . to -appear through them before the public!

A R K A II( S. A S· B A P T I

Cover

Phot o by Moncrief

entrance to the new au­- r ium of University Church, _.-etteville, to be dedicated Sun­, is featured on this week's er . For longer story, see pages and 13.

ew Orleans professor . "EW ORLEANS, La. - Wil­:n Loyd Hooper, Old Hickory,

- n., joined the teaching staff of =W Orleans Seminary Sept. 1 as

·stant professor o.f music, Semi-:-)' President H. Leo Eddleman

announced.

Hooper,, minister of music and cation at Old Hickory's First

pt ist Church for the J)ast two rs, is a graduate of William Jew­College, Liberty, Mo., and re­. -ed a master-of-arts degree in s ic from the University of

·a. He is a candidate for the D. degree at George Peabody ege, Nash ville.

ptist leader dies ' ILLIAM Madison Whitting­

. Sr., 84, Mississippi and South­Baptist leader, died at Green­d, Miss., Aug. 20. He was vice · ident of the Southern Baptist vention when 33 years old and · ident of the Mississippi Bap­Convention at the age of 32. attorney, Whittington served Congressman from Mississip­

: or 24 years, until he retired in -o.

t ember 6, 1962

Taylor named chief of AF chaplains A SOUTHERN Baptist chap­

lain, Brig. Ge:n. Robert P. Taylor, has been chosen as the new chief of Air Force chaplains. At the time of accepting the new duty, he will be promoted to major general.

Chaplain Taylor, a native of Kil­gore, Tex., has been deputy chief of Air Force chaplains. He is one of the two remaining chaplains who returned to service after ' sur­viving the 'terrors of 42 months as a prisoner of the Japanese. He en­tered the armed forces in 1940.

He received his education at Baylor University, Waco, Tex., and Southwestern Seminary, Ft. Worth, where he earned the mas­ter's and doctor's degrees in theol­ogy.

In April, 1941, he w~s assigned to the 31st infantry in Manila, Philippine Islands. At the outbreak of the war, his outfit went to the front lines on Bataan where he was cited for bravery and award­ed the Silver Star for gallantry in action .

The American forces surren­dred, and Chaplain Taylor became chaplain of the prison hospital at Cabanatuan. He ministered there ·

· to 10,000 patients.

In the summer of 1944, he was placed in solitary confinement for his activities in smuggling food and medicine to the patients. He was placed in a cage too small for him either to stand up or lie down . The Japanese removed him after 14 weeks. He was almost dead.

Chaplain Taylor was taken on one of the "hell ships" to Japan and Manchuria.' His ship was twice bombed by°the America·ns with the loss of more than a thousand lives. Although wounded and ill, he con-

. tinued to minister as a chaplain to the survivors.

Following his liberation and re­turn to the United States, he served as chaplain at Mather Air Force Base, Air Training Com­mand, Air Materiel Command, Civil Air Patrol headquarters in Washington and at the Air Uni­versity in Montgomery, Ala. ·

GEN. TAYLOR

Besides th'.e Silver Star, he has been decorated with the Bronze Star, the Presidential Unit Cita­tion with two oak leaf clusters and the Philippine Presidential U n i t Citation.

His wife is. the former Mildred Good of Carrollton, Tex. They have a son, Robert P. Jr., 11. ·

New counseling center TO WHOM can a pastor or other

reigious worker go with his own personal problems?

The· Counseling Center, Baton Rouge, La., organized recently un­der the leadership of Dr. David E. Mason, a Southern Baptist minis­ter, offers its help on a unique basis of complete anonymity.

A team of three counselors will work with a minister or religious worker on any personal problem.

· Complete confidence is assured in that the pame of the person seek­ing help will not be known.

The Counseling Center has a staff of counselors with a Chris­tian orientation and has five Bap­tists serving on its advisory board, Di;. Mason reports. The center deals with personal problems, chil­dren's guidance, teen-age prob­lems, marriage counseling, self­understanding, alcoholism, voca­tional guidance, and psychological testing. . • ·

It is located at 2858 Kalurah, in Baton Rouge.

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The Editor's Page

People on Venus? BY Christmas we may know whether we have

distant relatives on Venus. Mariner 2, a spaceship launched the other day

from Cape Canaveral, is hurtling along at a clip calculated to take it to the vicinity of Venus­perhaps .to within 10,000 miles-by December. And one of the objects ,.of the 180,000,000-mile foray is to determine if "life as we know it" exists on Venus.

It makes you a little ne·rvous to realize that if there are people on Venus and we find · out about them, they are liable to find out about us. What Venus thinks of Earth might be more of a shock than anything we can find out about Venus.

If a communications breakthrough ever · comes between Earth and Venus, it will doubtless be by radio and television. Just think what a bad foot we'd be off on if the first thing the Venus dwellers tune in on should be the ''commercials.'' They might conclude that life on earth is hazardous, indeed, where eternal destinies seem tq hing13 on such awesome decisions as choosing the right brand of cig·arettes, or drinki1ig the proper beer, chewing gum that has the accepted symbol on its wrapper, using soap or soap powders that ''science'' has ''proved'' superior, and so on, ad infinitum.

What would give an even more dismal view of Earth's civilization would be the happenstance of the Venus brethren escaping the commercials only to be exposed to a typical Hollywood production, with its strong· emphasis on illicit sex relations; gambling-in the underworld, in little and big business, in govcl'llment; lying; cheating; stealing; raping; murdering. ~

Think how jolting it might be to folk of the simple Venus life to tune in on one of our news broadcasts and to hear the day-to-day statistics of death and mayhem on our streets and highways in so-called ''accidents.''

vVhat will V cnus think of us if the first ones they hear from arc our Far Rights, who have found that most Americans, . if not card-carrying Commies/have at least been "brainwashed" by the Communists and now constitute the ''red'' or '' tcnibly pi11k'' Mistaken 1

And what '11 they think if they find out somehow that just about every A;.merican has his name inscribed 0~1 the roll of some church, synagogue, or temple, hut that this seems to make no difference in the mounting toll of broken . homes and skyrocketing crirnd '\Vill they be impressed with religion that makes so little diff crencc in the daily lives of the most of us 1 ·

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·what will they think of us if they find out that our highly touted "democracy" still has its cold­blooded political steamrollers that run roughshod over the will of the people! What :will they think of a democracy that denies basic human. rights to large classes and segments of its people1 (And who said anything about "race relations"t)

Let's give more attention ~o improving the quality of "life as we know it" on P lanet Earth­just in case Earth is discovered by Venus.

News bright spots \

A c coRDING to the papers, the "Board of . Deacons'' of First Baptist Church, Albany, Ga., have assured their pastor, Rev. Brooks Ramsey, that he may continue to "exercise a . free pulpit" even if his beliefs ''differ from those of some members of the ChuYch. ''

It seems that Pastor Ramsey has taken a moderate stand on his city's racial troubles and that he even dared protest the arrest of three Negroes who tried to attend his church on a recent Sunday.

This is an encouraging item, with one exception. vVhat the general public and some Baptist deacons do rrot seem to understand is that no Baptist church is itnder a '' Board of Deacons. '' The deacons are, or should be, under the church. While 'the Albany deacons have made the decision the church itself should make, they have 'no authority to decide what the church policy shall be on any­thing-race or anything else.

THIS editor sides with Governor Faubus and the overwhelming majorities of both houses o~ Congress on the proposal to do away with the po[ tax as a requirement for the privilege of voting But since there are only five states that still ha, the poll tax requirement (Arkansas, Alabama

.. Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia ), he feels that th length to which the Congress is going to bring th change-through amendment to the Constitution­is, as Rep. John Lindsay (Rep. of N. Y.) sai · '' using a sledgehammer, a cannon, to kill a gnat

But the right to vote without the paying of a kind of fee is a ·sacred right. And it might be w to guarantee this by Constitutional amendme even though, at this time, few of the states s· tax the vo\ing privilege.

Some honorable way can be found to make to the public schools the money they will lose w the poll tax is abolished. ·

A R K' A N S A,S B A P T

GoLD is where you find it, they say. In an old book - one I paid a quarter

for in a used book store in Phoenix, Ariz., last February, I have found an ex-, cellent address on "First Things," n gradi;ation address d e I i v e r e d in the spring .of 1915 by" Marion LeRoy Bur­ton to ·the graduates that year of Smith College; of which Dr. Bui;ton · was then president. Here is a

ERWIN L. most interesting and helpful study of the admonition of J esus in Matt. 6 :33: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, a nd hi s righteousness; and a ll t hese t hings sha ll be added unto you ."

In discussing what it means to "seek first the kin gdom of God, and his ri ght­eousness," Dr. Burton states :

·"The only way to meet the tempta­tions of life which mar our spirits and rob us of usefulness is to keep our grasp on spiritua l realities. Christ asks us a l­ways to retain the child-like attitude of good-will and kindliness. Just as a flow er breathes forth its fragrance, so surely will t he person who puts fi rst in his .heart the th ings of God carry a n atmosphere of thoughtfulness, cordia li ­ty and• good cheer. He will actually be­li eve that nothing is ever done in hau g htiness or pride which could not have been better done with simplicity and humility.

"He will rea lize fully t hat no word spoken in ill-will, bad temper or anger ever carries the weight of a message which reveals good-wi ll , self-control and serenity of spirit.

"He is persuaded that every act which is done in bitterness and hate would have accompli shed more if done in gentleness and love.

"He kn ows always that · kindness is more powerful than cruelty, that self­mastery is stronger than anger and that love is mightier than hate .

"Whether he considers the relation­ships of individuals or of nati ons, he beli eves tha t this sp irit of love and brotherhood is abs-olutely primary. He fee ls instinctively that it is the only wor­thy attitude in life. He knows that . only as we eliminat t'l strife, jealousy and hatred sha ll we find worthy life as in­dividuals, or as nations, or as a world. He believes that love is the great est :hing in life .... "

. aturally , I can't g ive it ' a ll to You ere. If you want more of it , you will

_a ve to borrow the book from me. Or, rter still, invite me to preach for you metime!

Letters to the editor

THE PEOPLE SPEAK Garners on furlough

WE will be g rateful if you will put a little notice in the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine of our return to the States. On August 14th we arrived from Argentina. Until further notice our ad­dress will be: 705 No. 36th St. Fort Smith, Arka nsas Telephone No. SUnset 2-4512

We hope to be of service during our stay in t he States.-Alex & Charleta Garner ·

MonticeJlo thanks

WE would like to ma ke a statement expressing J ur appreciation to the many friendi who provided homes for our children during the summer vaca­tion. The fact that we were a-gain . able to let a ll of the children go on vacation so we could a llow all of the staff to go on vacation the first half of August, I think, is most considerate on the part of Arkansas Baptists. Thi s is also true at Chri stmas time.-H. C. Seefeldt, Su­perintendent, Arkansas Baptist Home for Children

Hospital thoughts

I VISIT every week in our Arkansas Baptist Hospital, but I had not been P.

patient in the hospital 'for many years until recently. It would . be difficult for me to describe adequately the excellent service that our hospital is now render­ing. I found the administration anxious and willing to do everything they possi­bly could in order to make my stay a:; comfortable as possible.

I do not believe the nursing service could be improved, and the dear people who came into my r oom to care for me were as thoughtful and as kind as any could have been . .

Arkansas Baptists are very fortunate to have men like J. A. Gilbreath and W. H. Patterson· admi_nistering our great hospital, a nd I salute them and their co­workets in the thorough and competent work they are doing.

Looking back upon my week in the hospital, I have several observations to make, for whatever they may be worth.

First, I believe any man makes a mistake to wait until he is sick to try to straighten out his relationships with his Lord. I found that it is exceedingly difficult to J:lray effectively when your body is in great pain. If a man hasn't read his Bible and been faithful in hi s daily prayers during the days of his health, I don't believe he can do a verv effective job of his religious exerdse·s while he is sick.

Second, I spent a very miserable Sun­day _. t home trying to substitute radio and TV a nd good religious music for a personal visit to the house of God. Fel­lowship with God's people, warm hand­clasps with friends you love, and per­sona l participation in the worship j,1st

· have no substitutes. I hadn't seen Sun­day night TV for many years becaus~ these programs come right at the t ime of ,our Training Uni<:m and Sunday eve­ning service. Last night I became phys­ica lly sick trying to look at these pro­grams when I realized that millions of people actually prefer such entertain­ment to a Sunday evening spent in God's house.

Third, I came to know again the depth of the love which binds us to­gether in the work ·of the Lord. The many 9ards and letters, the many g ifts and flowers, the many phone calls as­sured me of my friends' thoughts and prayers. I believe I can be a better man and a better preacher because of that week. This will be my prayer.-W. 0. Vaught, ,Jr., Pastor, Immanuel Church, Little Rock

Preacher sans church

I HA VE read with interest the re­cent discussion in The Arkansas Bap­tist regarding "churchless preachers." I have spent 9 years in the pastorate. The last 4% years have been spent in a California church while attending semi­nary. In June of ·this year, I resigned the church there and my family and I returned to qur home state of Arkansas. We wer e hopeful that we would soon find a n opportunity ,of service some­were in this area. Thus far, we have found nothing. So for the past 11 weeks I have· been a "churchless preacher."

This has been a great trial of our faith and a great financial hardship upon us. This was not entirely unex­pected. We had anticipated some )apse of time before a door opened for us. We did not anticipate, however, th~t it would be a most rewarding spiritual ex­perience. I will not deny that I have at times been restless and discouraged. Nevertheless, in many ways the past 11 weeks have been among the most help­ful of my life.

First, this period has given me time to re-examine my own spiritual oxperi­ence. Times like this call for great

.searching of heart. During this time I have discovered some flaws in my Chris­tian life that I had not been aware of before. I believe the' insights I have gained through this introspection will provide the basis 'for a more mature Christian life in the future .

(See "Letters," page 19)

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Coui-tship, Marriage and the Home On one condition: that the re­quest is made to the glory of God; sought only if within His will; to the end that we and those for whom we pray may be our best for him:

~Lord, teach us to pray' By MRS. J. H. STREET There need be prayer only for

today. We will be talking again to · our Heavenly Father tomorrow. Throughout this day we will have · other sweet, intimate moments of communication with Him.

QUESTION: "Please write real often on prayer - any and all phases. We all need to do so much more praying than w.e do."

ANSWER: This dialogue took pla'ce recently between a lovely, Christian, high-school baby sitter and her four-year-old "charge."

Baby-Sitter: ·"There, you are all ready for bed. Now, let's say your prayers."

Four-Year-Old ': "I'm ~ot going to say my prayers tonight."

B. S.: "O, yes. ' We always talk to our Heavenly Father before we sleep. That makes us feel happier and sleep better. lf you are too sleepy to make your own prayer tonight, jµst say your, 'Now I lay me down to ·sleep' prayer."

F. Y. Q.: "No. That's kid stuff!" I

B. S.: "Well, if you've outg-rown, 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' talk to God the way you want to. Say . whatever is in your heart you want to tell him."

F. Y. 0.: "No! Tm just going on to sleep. I don't need to pray. The1•e's nothing I 'specially want tonight."

* * "Out of the mouths of babes" ,

once again! Here is the clear re­flection of many an adult attitude toward prayer.

Prayer, real prayer·, the kind of prayer that makes a difference, is· not just asking God for what we " 'specially want."

Prayer is fellowship with God. Prayer is acknowledging our

complete dependence upon God. "Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray."

It is confessing our sins, our mis­takes, our failures. ·

Prayer is asking· forgiveness and seeking cleansing.

Prayer is thanking God for an­other chance,· another day, a fresh opportunity to do bette_r.

Prayer is adoring God; the cre­ator and owner 0£ the\ ·universe.

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Recognizing His presence every­where-throughout the infinity of space, of planets, and of time.

Prayer is taking out moments just to . tell our Heavenly Father that we love Him.

Prayer is seeking poise, wisdom, and strength to live.

Prayer is a mother getting· from Him a schedule by which she can accomplish the endless tasks and responsibilities of the day without frustration . . . A dad imploring a way to pay his debts and a better plan for managing his affairs . . . . a man asking guidance for the con­duct of his business ... a doctor pleading for skill to deal aright with the bodies and emotions en­trusted to his care . . . a boy ask­ing God to help him put his best into a football game and to be a clean :;iportsman, whatever ... a · girl registering eagerness for the correct thing to wear, concern about her "dates" ... a little child pleading for his injured pet to be healed . . . a pastor weep­ing over some iniquities, misunder­standings, disagreements, suffer­ing among his flock and his own inadequacy to meet all needs . . .

Good parents seek to have cer­tain · times of fellowship with each child; then, they have times of

· counsel and fun together ~ith all the children, as a family. Some'of life's greatest experiences come when there is understanding com­munication between pare:r:it and child; parents and children.

Prayer is, perhaps most of all, reaching up to find God's will and way for this day. An opening of the heart to have motives made

, right. Nothing is too b~g, too hard,

"too" impossible; nothing is too small, too insignificant, too per­sonal to pray about. . . .

~ L1f e offers no resource of power, of joy, of fulfillment so great as that available through 'individual relationshiJi) with our divine Par­ent, and through the fellowship of group prayer.

We are beginning to learn to pray when we truly feel in our hearts what St. Francis of Assisi expressed through inspired words, passed from generation to gen­eration:

"LORD,

Make me an instrument of thy · peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

"O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved as to . love; for it is in giving that we re­ceive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, a.nd it is in dying that we are born to eternaJ life."

' Let us pray.

[Mail ·should be addressed to Mrs. Street at No. 3 F_airmont; Little Rock, Ark.]

ARKANSAS BAPTIST

ptist beliefs

MIRACLES By HERSCHEL H. HOBBS

President, Southern Baptist Convention .

First Baptist Chur<~h, Oklahoma City, Oklah~ma

~ E BIBLE assumes the reality ~e miraculous. It records mir­

in both the Old and New Testaments (cf. Exodus 7 :9-10, ten plagues; II Acts 3:lff.;. 5:12; 9 :32ff.). The pow­er to work mir­acles was a gift of the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 12 :10).

J HOBBS The Gospels re-thirty-five distinct miracles

:ormed by . Jesus. He also ght numerous miracles which ot recorded . ( cf. Matt. 4 :23-~ lark 6:56; Luke 6:17-19). - never worked a miracle pure­r His own benefit. Nor did He

words. But the idea of the miracu­lous is everywhere evident in the Gospels and elsewhere.

Some deny miracles on the basis of natural .Jaw. True, God works by His laws in nature. However, the universe is not mechanical but personal. There are laws known to God which are unknown to man. Even at the human level the per­sonal and spiritual are superior to the mechanical and natural. Who can deny to the infinite Spirit a knowledge of law unknown to in­finite beings? So what appears as unnatural to man is natural with

God. Miracles are not merely mag­ic. They are manifestations of God, who is both immanent and transcendent, as He employs pow­ers known to God, but not to man, as He achieves His personal and spildtual ends. "J ·~~-

P1·eache1' Poet

Sate o/ ~t4tta• tr4ee 0, for the salt of Christian

grace To go in the children's gravy! .

'Twould be enough· to save our land,

Our Army and our Navy.

And, too, the light of Christian life,

To live before their faces, Would give the ,world a host to

to bring New , Life in sundry places.

- The need today is right at home, The place of ,one's beginning,

If we would see the world made whole

. And righteousness awinning. -W. B. O'Neal

on demand (Matt. 12 :38ff.; · 2 23 :8ff.). The miracles of - dealt with nature, healing, ns, and death. He Himself a miracle as seen in His Vir­Birth, sinless life, vicarious

gleanings from the Greek New Testament

: , and bodily resurrection. The rrection was the "sign" given

:: i critics as proof of His deity :t. 12 :39ff.), a miracle which

denied when it happened rt. 28: 11-15).

- e New Testament uses four ~ with reference to mir'acles .a.mis, act of power, mighty

··, Matt. 11 :20-23; semeion, John 2 :11; teras, wonder,

- 24 :24; ergon, work, ,Matt. - . The word "miracle" does

ppear in Matthew (KJV). time it is used in Mark 9 :39

::-e it translates dunamis; and ·ime in Luke (23 :8) where it =-rs semeion. In John it is ' thirt_een times for semeion

-. " in Revised Vers-io.}'.}) , signs - us' deity. The Revised Stand-

·ersion omits the word "mir­altogether, preferring to give

- t ranslations to the various

em ber 6, 1962

V. Wayne Borton

Rewards in public Goo doesn't always operate in

public. That he sometimes "re­wards" his saints in public is, of course, oeyond dispute. Every day that passes finds God vindicating the righteous in a thousand dif­f~rent ways that ·often gd unno­ticed.

But he makes no promise al­ways to "reward" publicly. Mat­thew 6 :4 and 6 do · not really con­tain such a promise: "Thy Father

- · I ... shall reward thee openly,." Be-cause, you see, the word "openly" does not appear in the most an-

cient and trustworthy copies of the Bible. ~

I No one knows why the word was added at some late date. Perhaps it was added because someone somewhere falsely supposed that . God always rewards private devo­tion with public vindication. Much to the contrary, private devotion sometimes demands pµblic action on our part which is most unpop­ular and which awaits eternity to be vindicated p_ublicly by the di­vine , pronouncement: "Well done thou good and faithful servant."

Copyright 1962, by V . Wayne Barton New Orleans Seminary

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Arkansas All Over-------------New department chairman at OSC

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DR. CYRIL Lindquist has been named chairman of the Depart­ment of Economics and acting chairman of the Division of Busi­ness at Ouachita College. He as­sumed his new position Sept. 1.

Dr. Lindquist, a native of Min-.. nesota, holds the B. S. degree from the University of Minnesota and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. He ha~ taught business, advertising, and retailing at Rider Coll~ge, Elon College; and Hofstra College. He

1 was for one year a special guest

St,art mission fund THE Executive Board of Trin­

ity Association has approved a rec­ommendation of its Missions Com­mittee that the association make an annual gift of up to $500 to a church to help in the establishment of a mission; The association will also aid in initial construction of the mission building and the board urged all pastors and lay members to donate as much service as pos­sible in the beginning stages of the mission.

John.Moore ordained lecturer on advertising at Florida JOHN Moore, a senior at Ouach-State University. ita College, has been called as pas-

In addition to his a c a·d em i c tor of Piney Grove Church, Hope training and experience, Dr Lind- 1 Association. O n quist has had considerable expe:i;-i- · request of Piney ence, as a bu~iness exE,)eutiye and ~F\ . Grove Chur.ch, Mr. an official of1 a New York adver~ M OO re was or-tising agency. He is co-author of

1 . dained to the full

the textbo~k, "Principles irt Adver- · gospel ministry by ' itising." He is 57 'aI,J.d um;nb.rried. , First Church, Ste-

"We feel that Dr. Lindquist is , phens, Frid a y, , ,especially well qualified to t~ach in , Aug. 24.

a school such as ours," Ouachita President Dr. Ralph A. Phelps, Jr., said. "He has a rare combination. of excellent academic training and practical experie,nce in the busi­ness world."

Dr. Lindquist replaces Dr. Clyde Farnsworth, who returned to the position he held at East Tennessee State Colleg'e before coming . to Ouachita in 1961.

Begins J 0th year . DR. ANDREW M. HALL, pas­

tor of Fi,rst Church, Fayetteville, marked the beginning ' of his 10th year with the Fayetteville church the last week of August.

There have been 574 baptisms during his nine-year pastorate and 3,195 ' additll'ons by letter. Church property va· ue 'has increased from

, $233,090 to almost $900,000 and total annual gifts from $75,000 to $141,000 ..

Dr. Hall was scheduled to enter Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Aug. · 29 for ear surgery. (CB)

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T h e ordaining MR. MOORE ' council was com-

posed of deacons of First Church. Rev Hugh Cantrell, First Church pastor, acted as moderator an d preached the ordination sermon; Dr. John Maddox, pastor of First Church, Camden, conducted the ex­amination; Rev. Dwight Linkous, pastor of Buena ~sta Church, presented a copy of Young's Ana­lytical Concordance, a gift from First Church; Rev. Conway Saw­yers, associational missionary of '.Liberty Association, prayed the or-daining prayer. · ·

Mr. Moore is married to the for­mer Miss Barbara Bass of Mag­nolia. They have one child, Dian­na, 9 months.

REV. and Mrs. Robert S. Franks, appointees for Mexico, may be addressed at 3101 N. W. 30th, Ok­lahoma City 12, Okla. He is a na­tive of Okemah, Okla.; she is the former Sallie Dollins, of P a r a­gould, Ark.

Calendonia Church has 'Oscar Taylor Day'

\\. . . 0. "Oscar" Taylor celebrated his 50th anniversary as a preacher Aug. 26 when he brought-the mes­sage at Caledonia Church, El Do­rado, from the same text he used when he preached his first sermon in the same church in August, 1912.

Mr. Taylor, who was born in 1890 a:nd baptized in 1907, has baptized more than 2,000 during his long career. He was a leader in organizing 12 new churches and three , youth encampments, the Northeast Arkansas . Encampment at Ravenden Springs: Baptist Vis­ta Camp near Ozark, and Wolf Creek Camp in Ashley County. He also was active in the organization of Southern Baptist Coll~ge at Walnut Ridge. l

He has pastored churches in Ar­kansas, Louisiana, Texas and Okla- · homa and served as · an association­al missionary 25 years.

Mr. Taylor was educated at Junction City High School., Ou11ch­ita College, and Southwestern Seminary where he was awarded a Th.M. degree. He now resides in ' Little Rock.

·Miss Holland honored MISS Elva Holland, director of

the Arkansas Baptist Hospital School of Nursing, was honored at the August meeting of the State Board of Nurse Examiners. The board presented her with a ftamed resolution recognizing her leader­ship as past president and for her "untiring efforts in the field of nursing and her contributions to the Board of Nurse Examiners." ·

FINIS L. Card, who has the B.D. degree from Golden Gate Seminary, resigned recently as pastor of Trinity Church, Alma, and is available for a pastorate. His address is Box 155, Alma, Phone 2741.

ARKANSAS BAPTIST

achita honor roll :\.ENTY-NINE students at chita College made all A's dur­the spring semester, while 78

ers made the honor roll with a de point average of 3.50 or bet­

:Miss Frances Crawford, regis-I has announced.

Those making all A's included Bacon, Malvern ; Janet Ben­

. Arkadelphia ; Linda Brown, heville ; Mary Raye Carter,

ttgart, Carolyn Clary, St a r .. , Peggy Ellis, Amarillo, Tex. ; ie Fallin, El Dorado; Carole an, Blytheville; Peggy Gullage, kson, Miss. ; C h a r 1 e s Hamil,

::iford, Fla.; Judith Ann Henry, n e Bluff, Margaret Herzfeld, hes;

une Hines, Prescott; Frances m e, Sparkman; Judith Huff­n, Ma 1 v er n; Ruth Johnson, .. lisle, Mary Nell Kellum, Keno-. Wis.; Linda McKinney, Little k, Alice Reaves, Little Rock;

Richardson, Eminence, Mo. ; othy S e w a r d, Arkadelphia;

- 'dy Stanton, Little Rock; Mary :a Ussery, McGehee; Anton Uth, ·ord, Miss.; Marjorie Vilhaver, ~ Angeles; Edwina Walls, Eng-

; Joe Ward, Little Rock; Lin­Watts, Star City; and Verna -terman, Weiner.

· g the honor roll were Re'Qecca Bailey, ·le ; J. W. Bethea, Arkadelphia; Rebecca on, Fordyce; Peggy Braden, Leachville, Brewer, Jonesboro ; Sara Brown, Lonoke;

rd Ca rey, Shreveport; Barbara Caston, Hope; Chavez, Norwalk, Calif.; -Catheryne Clark,

n ; Marsha Connor, El Dorado; Gay Cross• · rtle Rock; Nancee Dickson, Memphis, Tenn.;

· r ie Dorsey, Little Rock; Frances Dryer, :ain Home; Lela Ann El'ledge, Arkadelphia; · Francis, Hot Springs ; Beverly Gallegly, Rock ; Ma rie Gambrell, Pine Bluff ; Larry

Gardner, Wynne ; Jerry Grounds, Little llolly Goforth, Piggott, Edwin Hamil, Or­Fla. ; Janet Harper, Little Rock; Emma

Harris, Ward ; Bill Hayes, Stuttgart, Boo Litt1e Rock, Nancy Hicks, Mena; Linda

Little Rock ; Ethelene Hook, Little Rock ;

Huckabay, Clarksville; Gail Huckabay, -· Okla. ; Joyce Ingrum, Blytheville; John­

n, Waldo ; Tommy Jo Jones, Arkadelphia; - Jordan, Arkadelphia; Mary Ann Karam, Rock ; Martha Keith, Ma'lvern ; Lyna Laman,

e; La rry Larson, Norphlet; Bonita Liles, Susan McClelland, Buckville; Wanda Mc­

cGehee ; Gerald McGraw, Jacksonville, Della · Kay Mason, West Helena; Justlyn

L it tle Rock; Fay Matthews, Van Bur~n;

lletcalf, DeWitt; Jean Moore, Benton; •• ichols, Fountain Hi'II; Kathleen Norris, Home; Elaine Oennlng, Blytheville; Eu­

Oenning , Blytheville; Charles Queen, Jud-&nda Reed, Norfork; David Rison, Perry-

3etty Schrader, Malvern; Pam Scott, Cam­T T . Smart, Camden; Diana Smith,

, Va. ; Linda Smith, Van Buren; Mary - "th, Little Rock ;

Lee Smith, Bee Branch ; Ed Stacks, ; Calvin Stackhouse, Hughes ; Jean

Gurdon ; Lindi Stilger, San Francisco ; • }'!or, Sparkman ; Carolyn Timm, Little - ndra Wallis, Clinton, Mo.; Jim Ward,

; Richard Wilheltn, Waldo; Jobi) WU­Waldo; Ruth Womack Poole, El Dorado; ood, Hot Springs; Charles Wright, Mc· d Opal Wynn, Alton·, Mo.

Harvill to train as mission chaplain

REV. J. T. Harvill, who has been appointed to serve as a Baptist missionary to Mexico, began a pe­

riod of training in clinical pastoral education at Ar­kansas B a p t i s t Hospital Sept. 4.

Mr. Harvill and family have just · returned .f r o m San Jose, Costa Rica, where they

spent a year m language s_chool. He will remain at the hospital for six weeks and possibly longer, de­pending on arrangements for his residency in Mexico.

A native of Humphrey, Mr. Har­vill was educated at Ouachita Col­lege and Southwestern Seminary, Ft. Worth, Tex. He has served as pastor of the Eighth Avenue Bap­tist Church in Ft. Worth; Second Church, Car .en; and First Church, Lonoke, for the three years prior to going to Costa Rica.

The Harvills are scheduled for assignment in Guadalajara, Mexi­co, where Mr. Harvill will work with English-speaking people and be chaplain of the Baptist Hos­pital.

Revi.vals FIRST CHURCH, Gravel Ridge,

Jack Livingston, pastor; Aug. 19-22 with state Director of Evangel­ism Jesse S. Reed, evangelist, and Mark Short, Sr., music; eight fo,r baptism, three by letter, 12 reded­ications.

FIRST Church, Stuttgart, D. B Bledsoe, pastor; Sept. 9-16 with Rev. Billy Walker, Walnut Ridge, evangelist.

WESTSIDE Church, Manila, Thurlo Lee, pastor; July 30-Aug. 5 with Rev. Bill H. Lewis, Para­gould, evangelist, and Herbert "Red" Johnson, Mountain Home, music; 15 for baptism, four by let­ter, several rededications.

FIRST Church, Paris, Harold White, pastor; Sept. 30-0ct 7 with Rev. Billy Walker, evangelist, and Rev. Jerry D. Moore, of Dallas, Texas., music.

MOUNTAIN View Church, Lit­tle Rock, J. F. Queen, interim pas­tor; 10-day revival closed Aug. 8 with Rev. T. S. Hammons, Cabot, evangelist, and Rev. Ed Walker, of Levy Church, music ; four for bap­tism and ·church membership.

ALSUP Church, Bay, Carl L. King, pastor; Aug. 13-19 with Bob R. Adams, Caraway, evangelist; ·Windell R a s b err y and Agnes Owens, music; seven for baptism, four by letter, eight rededications.

REV. Bill H . . Lewis was the evangelist and Herbert "Red" Johnson led the music at a revival Aug. 6-12 at Range Hills Church, Memphis, Tenn., W. W. Shanklin, pastor. There were 20 for baptism, 10 by letter and one for special service. ,

ST. JOE Church, July 15-25 .:witli the pastor, Roy McLeod, as evangelist; seven by baptism, three by letter, one by statement, eight rededications.

FLAG Church, Rev. J . D. Sey­mour, associational missionary ser ving as pastor ; Aug. 12-19 with Rev. Roy McLeod, St. Joe, evange-

, list; one profession of faith, one by baptism, one surrender for the ministry.

SCOTLAND Church, Aug. 12-22 with the pastor, Leroy Rogers, as evangelist; 31 additions, 24 by bap­tism, seven by letter, one surren­der for the ministry.

FIRST Church, G r e e n w o o d, Ralph Dodd, pastor; eight-day re­vival with Bill Eustis as evan_ge­list; nine professions of faith, many rededications.

CORNER'S C h a p e 1 Church, Tr umann, Harry Tipton, pastor; Aug. 12-19 with Herbert Higdon, pastor of Scenic Hill C h u r c h, Memphis, evangelist; eight f o r baptism and one by letter.

EVANGELIST Paul McCray, of Siloam Springs, reports the follow­ing recent meetings :

Tent reviv,al, S h i e l d s Blvd. · Church, Oklahoma City, Aug. 1-12, ·19 additions, 11 for baptism, 8 by lette-r.

Homesteads Church, Crossville, Tenn., Aug. 13-20, 9 for }?apti~m.

P 1 1e Nine

Arkansas All Over--------------------Arkansas to lflexico

FOUR Arkansas laymen . will participate in a 12-day , goodwill tour of Baptist missions in Mexico which begins Sept. 17 from Lare­do, Tex.

They are J. H. Abel, Jr., a For­rest City water well contractor; B H. Beene, Harrison investor an d farmer; C. E. Precise, Sr., a Hot Springs retired salesman; and Dr. James F. Sawyer, a Benton dentist.

The 32-man tour is the fifth to Mexico sponsored by the Brother­hood Commission. The tour will be by bus.

Visits will be made to mission sites in such Mexican towns as Sa­binas, Saltillo, Matehauala, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, M e x i' c o City, Taxco de Alarcon, Toluca, Morelia, Zopoco, Uruapan, Guadal­ajara, San Juan de. los Lagos, Za­catecas, Durango, and Torreon.

The Baptist mission program in Mexico is directed by the Forei'gp Mission Board, which supervises 50 missionaries there.

L. E. Coleman, of Memphis, an. associate secretary with the Br'o­therhood Commission, will conduct the .. tour. Norman Godfrey, an as­sistant Royal Ambassador secre­tary, will assist.

First gift received THE first gift on a new phys­

ical education building at Ouach­ita College has been received, Pres­ident Ralph A. Phelps, Jr., has an­nounced.

On the day after the announce­ment was made, of the trustees' de­cision to build a new gymnasium on a pay-as-you-go basis, the check for $50 was received. It came from a Baptist preacher whose name was not divulged by Dr. Phelps.

Dr. Phelps indicated that con­struction will begin as soon as there is enough money in hand t9 start digging the foundation. It is hoped that considerable work can be 4one before b~d weather sets in.

"Our present gymnasium was constructed for a student body of 400," the Ouachita p:i;esi'dent point­ed out. "With more than 1,300 stu­dents enrolled now and each re-

P age Ten

quired to take a physical education activity course each semester he is in school, our present facilities are t o t a l I y inadequate for t eaching purposes,

1quite apart from a n y

need for additional seating for bas­ketball games."

The old gymnasium will be re­tained to provide addit ional space for physical education classes.

. Minor Cole retires REV. Minor E. Cole, pastor for

the past 12 years of Fi rst Church, Dumas, officially retired from the pastorate on Sept. 1.

Pastor Cole has spent the last 30 years in three Arkansas pas­tor.ates, First Church, Warren; First Church, Forrest City ; and First Church, Dumas.

Mr. and Mrs. Cole came to Du­mas from the First Church, For­rest City, Oct 18, 1950.

Under Mr '. Cole's leadership, the church has progressed in "Chris­tian attitude, membership, attend­ance, finances, and there h a v e been over $150,000 in physical improvement/' report William F. Puryear and Mrs. Clifton Landon, speaking for .the church.

"We would like to officia lly and f publicly express our appreciation and love that the membership of this Church has for Brother a n d Mrs. Cole," they write. 1 "Also we w·ould like to wish God's blessings on them and their new endeavers which will be pul­pit supply and interim pastoral work from their new home at 3201 Poplar Street, Pine Bluff."

Eye Center opens -1

THE new $,25,000 Eye Center at Baptist Hospital opened August 31. The first eye · surgery in the new area was scheduled for Sept. 4.

The Eye Center is located on the second floor of the hospital and in­cludes two operating rooms with speci~l eye work equipment, a

· treatment and examining room, an instrument sterilization room and a scrub · room.

Eye patients will be kept near the sur~erY, unit on second floor.

Threet to Piggott REV. Kenneth Threet has ac­

cepted a call to the pastorate of First Church, Piggott. He comes from Oran, Mo., where he was pas­tor of First Church for the past four years.

Pastor Threet was born at Lead Hill and has helc;I pastorates in Paragould, Forrest City, and Har­rison. He also served as pastor of · Bellmont Park Church, Ft. Worth, Tex.

He holds degrees from Southern Baptist College and Arkansas State College. His bachelor-of-di­vinity degree is from Southwest­ern Seminary Ft. Worth, Tex.

' The Threets have four children, Billy;, 10; John, 8; Kenne Lynne, 3 ; and Lisa, 18 months.

Mr. Threet is vice president of the executive board of Southern College. He has served in m a n y ways in associationaJ and state work in the Southern Baptist Con­vention, and has served extensive­ly as an · evangelist.

The Threets moved to Piggott on Aug .21. '

The new pastor spoke at both services on Sunday, Aug. 26. A reception was held in honor of the pastor and family after the eve­ning service. and g i f t s were brought by the members of the church as an expression of 'love.

Concord Association By Jay W. C. Moore

CLAUDE STEWART, pastor of Lavaca Church for the past four years, has resigned to accept the p a s to r a t e of Eastern Heights Church, Muskogee, Okla. The Mus­kogee church, with 900 members, has grown from 17 members who met in a tent for several years to the second largest of the 19 South­ern Baptist churches in the city.

While serving the Lavaca . Church, Stewart taught for four years in the Concord Seminary Center , Ft. Smith, ancl wrote the Sunday School lessons for the Ft. Smith Weekly, which ' carries two pages of church new~·."

A R K A N S A S B A ·P T I S T

THE THIRD annuai Associa­tional Assembly registered 462 de­cisions. Among these were 20 pro­fessions of faith, 18 for special service and 425 who vowed not to drink, dance, smoke nor commit adultery nor fornication.

K. Alvin Pitt, pastor of Baring Cross Church, North Little Rock, served as camp pastor. Denny Ma, · from Hong Kong, China, served as the mission speaker. Don Sears, of Grand Avenue Church Ft. Smith, directed t!:te music. Missionary Moore served as director of the as­sembly.

THE SIXTH consecutive year for the Concord Seminary Exten­sion Center begins Sept. 17 in the associational center at 408 North 14tn Street, Ft. Smith. Norman Lerch, pastor of First Church, Booneville, will teach The H ea1·t Of The New Testament.

The center has enrolled 343 in five years and 300 have completed their courses. .

tlIE ANNUAL tneeting will be ' held Thursday, Oct 11, in Temple Church, Ft. Smith, and on Friday, Oct 12, the morning and afternoon sessions will be held in F i r s t Church, Charleston.

Ralph Dodd, pastor of F i r s t, Greenwood, is the moderator, Hugh Horne, of Calvary Church Ft. Smith, is the clerk. Kenneth Wil­liams, p a s to r of the Temple Church, is the treasunir.

DAVID LAND and the Barling Church are sponsoring a 30-min­ute weekly radio program over ra­dio station KFDF, Van Buren. Special music is rendered by th e quartet of the church for about 15 minutes. The program closes with a 15-minute message by Pa s tor Land.

WARREN Butler who served he Northside Church, Charleston, or nearly two years, has resigned nd moved to Carlsbad, N. M.,

vhere he hopes to re-enter rural ission work.

THREE church auditoriums are nder consbmction in Concord : luff r, Avenue, Clayton Peoples, astor;· Haven ,Heights, in the Cav­naugh area; where Lee Laira­ore, missi@Yl pastor of F i r s t hurch~ Ft. Smith, serves as pas:.

or ; and First; Barling, where Da­j d Land is the' J:)astor.

e pteniber 6, 1962

Middle • .of the · Road

By J. I. COSSEY

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

Field Rep;esentative

Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine MR. COSSEY

GOSSIP. The Dictionary says, "One wbo runs from house to house or goes around about tattling and telling news; a,p idle tattler; a news­monger."

Gossip is a deadly sin. Gossip never did any good to any person or cause, but it always does, harm. The gossiper's "trade mark" is idle talk and groundless rumor. Tennyson said, "I live in a place where even the ordinary tattler of the town arrives not till it is stale .'" ·

Some one asked about a gossiping circle, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies." '

There is so 11iiich good in the worst of us, knd so much bad in the best of us, That i't ill becomes any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

2 Thess. 3 :11 "For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorder!'.),·, 'Yorking not at aII, but are busybodies."

If I am tempted to reveal A tale someone to m e ha.s told About anothe1·, let it pass, Before I speak, th1·ee gate!; of gold.

Th1'ee narrow ,qates: First, IS IT TRUE? Then, IS IT NEEDFUL? In my mind Give truthful answer, and the next Is last and narrou:est, IS IT KIND?

And if, to reach my lips at last, It passes through these gateways, three , Then I may tell the tale, nor f ear. What the results of speech 1nay be ,

"One touch of scandal makes the whole world chin."

"And anything you tell a woman goes in one ear and over the back -fence."

"Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness,"-Ninon de Lenclos.

"Never chase a lie; if you let it alone, it will soon run itself to death. You can work out a .good character faster than calµmny can destroy it." -E. Nott.

"Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall."-Fuller. ·

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard th.em."-Cato.

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ve teville Ch r dication Sept. U NIV,ERSITY CHURCH, Fay­

etteville, Dr. Walter Johnson, pas­tor, will dedicate its new, $160,000

auditorium S u n­day, Sept. 9, at the morning wor­ship service, with Dr. Erwin L. Mc­Donald, editor of the A r k a n s a s Baptist . N e w s -

,magazine, as guest speaker.

PASTOR JOHNSON The cornerstone \ laying ceremony will be held at 2 :30 p.m., followed by open house. Pastor Johnson ~ill speak at the evening worship service, at .7 :30 p.m.

The new building is of contem­porary design with laminated wood arches. The outside masonry walls are of buff brick, while the inside \\';alls are of stacked blocks

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of shell coral Indian Hill stone. The Architect, Paul Young, and

the contractors, Brennan - Boyd Construction Company, are afl of Fayetteville.

The sanctuary proper is 107 feet by 52 feet. In addition, between the sanctuary and educational building some 45 feet more is used for the church office, pastor's study and covered walkway con­necting the two buildings, which have a combined length of 252 feet.

Twelve mile view ~ The view to the south exte cls

12 miles to the Boston Mounta ris, while three and one-half block to the west is the campus of the U i-versity of Arkansas. -

Seating capacity in pews and choir is 520, and . for over-flow crowds 80 chairs can be used ,. mak­ing a total seating capacity of 600.

I

The balcony is not yet developed, · but can be as need arises, to care for larger audiences.

The pews are of solid African mahogany, and . are arranged in three 12-foot rows, thus giving the ~anctuary four aisles. The same material is used in pulpit, Lord's Supper tab'le and choir rail. The art glass in 18 windows on either side and a large window in front is aqua.

The carpet is turquoise in color. The various hues are harmoniously tied together in · a light blue u,sed on the walls of the baptistry. At the top of the baptistty wall a carving of a dove will be featured with a spot light. The baptistry itself is of white fiberglass.

, The perpendicular a•nd trans­verse woodwork in the choir area is of California redwood. Flowers in planters, also of shel_l coral In-

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·an Hill stone, are in front of the _ · ano and organ areas. The gen­~ral pulpit and choir sections· were e igned by the young artist, Rich­rd S. Greer, a member of t he ngregation. The 32-by-52-foot basement area

~ devoted to a large choir practice oom, air-conditioning and heating

equipment, and lounges. The build­ng and offices are air-conditioned :hroughout.

Committees listed The Long Range Planning Com­

mittee is composed of Dale Brad­:ord, chairman ; Professor L. R. Kirby, associate chairman; Dr. Glen Clayton, J. F. Gabbard, M. N. Graue, Richard B. Greer, Alsey L. Holland, Urban Holland, Doyle ~ utt, Parker Rushing, Dr. Paul Sharrah, . Everett Skelton, Rev. Glenn Steele, Robert Thomas, Charles A. Thorn, and Paul Twee­dle.

The Building Committee is com­posed of Dale Bradford, chairman ; Dr. Glen Clayton, and Professor L. R. Kirby.

The Furnishings Committee is composed of Mrs. James R. Greer, chairman; Mrs. Dale Bradford, ::\1rs. Urban Holland, J. F. Gab­bard, and Clarence Haines.

The chairman of the Finance Committee, Richard B. Greer, and his group directed in the financial program, while the chairman . of the deacons, Arlin Jones, and his colleagues supported the work in general.

The Sunday School superintend- · ent, Dr. Paul Sharrah, and the Training Union director, William H. Baxter, are looking forward to expanded work in their fields.

The Woman's Missionary Un­·on, with Mrs. Arlin Jones as president, aided in the work . hrough prayer and in many other · ways.

The president of the Brother-ood, Donald Watson, with the ·

::nen and membership at large ·.elped in the task and rejoice in :he new sanctuary.

Unusual significance University Church is composed

lmost equally of business people , ... nd others from the city and of , faculty members and students -"rom thEi University of Arkansas.

S e p t e m b e r 6 ,, I 9 6 2 I

As the students come from the Baptist congregations of the state and elsewhere, the church is of more than usual significance to Baptists. The students, ori gradu­ation, go out to cities and towns of the state and to other places throughout the world. ·They will be leaders of some sort wherever they go, depending in large meas­ure on their faithfulness to Christ in a Baptist church in Fayetteville and the Christian training· and fel­lowship found there.

local Baptist impact I Some students who are lost are

won to Christ and go out as fine Christian workers. Some who are Christians come to the University, have their faith weakened and their lives compromised. The local Baptist churches, aided by the Baptist Student Union, are of great importance to the denomina-tion. • -

Many students appreciate the warm fellowship and friendly, at­mosphere of University Church, which endeavors to be faithful to the preaching, teaching, and living of the great truths of the Bible.

. The congregation seeks to help provide a wholesome social life for the single students, including free . meals on Sunday afternoon, ' since food is not served on_'this evening in the dormitories and boarding

. houses. · The well-staffed nurseries are of value to the marr.ied students with children.

The . church's concrete and as­phalt private street, 500 feet iri length, and much of the other as­

, phalt parking area are being cov­ered w'ith a new coating of asphalt. These areas provide excellent park­ing right by the educationa.l build: ing and new sanctuary .

Organized nine years University Church was formally

organized March 15, 1953. The pres­ent pastor, was called at that time. In the beginning the church had no property, not even hymn books, chairs, or building-just good peo­ple and faith in God. A lot of some two acres in the center' of the city was purchased, and a modern edu­cational building· of over 10,000 square feet floor space was erected that year.

Later, a residence and lot ad­joining were purchased. \Yith the erection of the new sanctua ry, the total value of church property is now around $300,000. The congre­gation feels that this building is the result of answered prayers. It is humbly grateful to God for His blessings.

The church has had about 1,000 additions, including ·charter mem­bers, during its history. Because many student members have grad­uated and left the city, and because people normally move on the aver­age about once eve:i;y four and one­half years, the church membership has been around the 400 mark, but with the new sanctuary greater growth is expected.-Church Re­porter

Missionaries at festival HELSINKI, Finland (EP) - A

Cameroonian delegate's ch a r g e that American missionaries were "colonial agents" was quickly chal­lenged by a 23-year-old Harvard graduate here during the Commu­nist-sponsored World Youth Festi­val July 27 to Aug. 5.

Fred N otehelfer stood to his feet and declared that the United States had "a long tradition of sep­aration of Church and State." He admitted to the press later, however, that the "American posi­tion has been very poorly repre­sented at the festival thus far, if at all." He declared that the or­ganizers had succeeded in devising proc~dural means of making it "very difficult" for defenders of the U. S. to speak.

The World Youth Festival was marked by attacks on delegates and demonstrations by Finnish youth who oppose Communist gather­ings.

Broadman Comments NASHVILLE - Solving t h e

problem of "why buy the whole book just for three months' les­sons," Broadman Press has p u b­lished a fourth quarter edition of "Broadman Comments," commen­tary for Sunday school teachers.

The new edition, a paper-bound one, has commentaries for lessons in October through December, and is available at all Baptist b o-o k stores.

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ews and By the BAPTIST PRESS the court. It said, "This is a go -

time for us to think about what i:: happening in our nation . . . u;, our desire to safeguard the reli­gious freedom of some who canno~

Most Baptist papers support prayer rul~ng · believe in our God, we have tossed

aside, one by one, some importan things.'' Horace F. Burns edits the paper. MOST weekly newspapers in the

Southern Baptist Convention have editorially supported the U n i t e d States Supreme Court decision outlawing the · regents' prayer in New Yo_rk pubiic schools.

While two feel the court erred and three others are hesitant about taking a stand for the present, the great majority of editors believe the decision to b,e sound.

They rest their: belief on several points: [1] that the decision will strengthen separation of church and state, [2] that it harmonizes with Baptists' heritage of religious liberty, and [3] that it was a rul­ing on a specific · issue and does no't establish a trend' t'owl rd athe­ism.

Twelve papers supported the de-. cision; two more gave what might be considered tentative or reluc­tant support. Three others took no position upholding or attacking the Supreme Court's 6-1 decision. But another ·pair denounced the deci-sion.

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Among the supporters\; of the de­cision were the Ohio Baptist Mes­senger, The Religious - Herald 9f Virginia, the Baptist Standard of Texas, the W or·d and Way of Mis­souri, the Florida Baptist Witness, the Illinois Baptist, the Maryland Baptist, the Capital Baptist ih the District of Columbia, the Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma, the ·Ala­bama Baptist, the Arkansas Bap­tist and the Baptist Messag e in Louisiana.

Giving conditional support only wer~ the Wes tern Recorder of Ken­tucky · and the Baptist R ecord of Mississippi. The/ B a p t is 't New Mexican, the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina and the Baptist Courier of South Carolina with­held judgment on the court's rul­ing.

The Christian Index (Georgia) condemned the court for pointing an arrow toward godlessness, and the California Southern iBaptist said the decision proved the court

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could make an err or. Lynn M. Davis, Columbus, edi­

tor of the Ohio paper, disagreed on there being any trend from r e­ligion. Wrote he :

"While the decision of the high­est court in the land banned offi­cial 'prayer, it shows no 'hostility toward religion or toward prayer.' . .. The danger to our nation is not to .be found in this one ruling:

. Let the ruling stand. Let individ· ual and free prayer abound."

The Ohio .editorial defended the Supreme Court as a tribunal t o maintain "through the decision of­controversies, these constit utional guar.antees.'"

E /.s. James; Dallas' editor of the Texas paper, largest circulation of the 28 Southern Baptist st ate papers, inquired if most people formed their first opinions of the ruling on scanty information.

After a cooling off period, he said, "Most everyone knows by now . . . that the court decision was aga,inst a particular prayer in

· the New York sc>hools and that it was based on the religious freedom · · clause of the Constitution. People now know, or at least have had a . chance to know, that it was a great victory for Christian freedom and that it was not a ruling aga inst re­ligion."

John J. Hurt, editor of the Christian Index, Atlanta, head­lined the editoria l "Supreme Court Edicts Tragic For God And Mor­als.'' He said the decision "m a y have dug the grave for every ref­erence to God in every government forum, in the military, the prisons and all else.''

"Perhaps," said the Baptist Rec­ord in its only limited support, "the decision of the court was in­evitable and right. At the same time' the questions it raised may help clarify the whole issue." Joe T. Odle of Jackson, Miss., is edi­tor.

The Baptist New Mexican at Al­buquerque didn't attack or defend

H. H. McGinty of Jefferson City, Mo., summarized the church­state implications of the ruling in the Word and Way : "This rieed not be· interpreted as a .setback to prayer . . . [The decision] may well be hailed as a landmark in a never ending search to strike a proper balance · between c h u r c h and state."

The Maryland Baptist, edited by Gainer E . Bryan, Jr., at Balti­more, stood by the court. "The ... decision was in the mainstream, not only of American political tra­dition, , but of Baptist philosophy.

•[!'he pr inciple~ tl1at it rei ffirms are the same that Baptists have proclaimed for centuries . , ."

Jack L. Gritz of Oklahoma City wrote, concerning any trend to­ward atheism, ". .. most 'Baptists are shocked at the mistaken as­sumption ... that the court's de­cision is somehow a ruling against any · prayer (and possibly B i b 1 e reading) in the public schools. This emphatically is not the case." [Last sentence italicized.] Gritz approved the ruling.

The Western Recorder, edited by C. R. Daley of Middletown, Ky., took a middle position in an edi­torial captioned, "Bad And Good." J. Marse Grant of Raleigh, N. C., advised parents " . .. i'et's be sure there is prayer with our children in the home before we are tempted to lament its absence in the school room." He deferred opinion for or against the ' court's ruling.

Also pointing out the ch u r ch­state and religious liberty angles and supporting the court w e r e Leon Macon of B i r m i n g h a m ; James F. Cole of Alexandria, La. ; James 0. Duncan of Washington,

· D. C. ; Reuben E. Alley of Rich­mond, Va. ; W. G. Stracener .of Jacksonville, Fla., and L. H . Moore of Carbondale, Ill.

T,he editor of the Arkansas pa­per, Erwin L. McDonald of Little

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· joined Grant of North Caro­in emphasizing the ro.le of

:-er in the home. But McDon­·ndicated support of the court's

-. Kelly Simmons of Fresno, f ., said flatly the court erred.

~ai led, he declared, to take cor­• reckoning of the voluntary na­e of the regents' prayer. -. H. Jones of Greenville, S. C., -nheld opinion on the ruling. He de this brief comment, howev­"We believe prayer to be such ..

.5.acred and personal matter that is not to be regulated in any .- by government;''

Daley of Kentucky appeared to -:-e some endorsement to a consti­:ional amendment permitting

yer and religious activities in blic schools. The amendment st also forbid tax funds to go parochial schools for such re-· ous activities, he added.

laska accepts ioint ate missions plan THE annual Alaska Baptist nvention meeting agreed to join · e Home Mission Board of th e uthern Baptist Convention in an rangement to support mission-ies in the 49th state. ' Beginning Jan. 1, missionaries

JI be jointly employed by the te and -the Home Mission Board. e plan is similar to that worked t in the last few years by the

ome Mission Board and o t h e r tes.

The items shared in by the two oups will be divided in this man­r - 95 per cent furnished by e SBC agency and five percent

Alaska Baptists. The convention elected John 0. ffcoat of Fairbanks, a minister,

resident. Jeffcoat, I as t year's ice president, preside'd at the 1962 nvention because the president d moved out of the state. It will

ieet in 1963 at Anchorage, Aug. H 5. It adopted a $47,009 budget for ~3 based on anticipated receipts om affiliated churches. Count-

f unds from the SBC Sunday ool and Home Mission Boards

r joint promotion and workers Joyed in this way, the budget es to $159,154.

tem ber 6, 1962

MR. LACKEY

Austin and Lackey get new assignments

THE Stewardship Commission of the Southern Baptist Conven­tion has voted to employ one new . staff member and to assign an­other staff member new duties.

Each assumed tentative respons­ibility in his new area Sept 1 with the final effective date of the as­signments being Dec. 1.

Executive Director Merrill D. Moore announced from commission offices in Nashville that James V Lackey, Nashville, presently with the SBC Sunday School Board, is the new staff member. He' will be director-elect of stewardship de­velopment from S e p t e m b e r through November, then assume the position as director. 1 Moore also reported James C. Austin of Nashville, currently di­rector of stewardship development, will become director of endowment and capital giving promotion in De­cember. Until that time, Austin will continue · in his present work and will also be director-elect of endowment and capital giving pro­motion.

Austin's new position, one of three staff positions under Moore, has been unfilled since the creation of the Stewardship Commission.

Lackey, 33, has for almost 10 y ea r s been superintendent of young people's work with the Sun­day school department of the Sun­day S~hool Board. He is son of T. B. Lackey, Oklahoma City, execu­tive secretary of the Baptist Gen­eral Convention of Oklahoma.

COMING TO

UNIVERSITY?

First Baptist Church of Fay-'

etkville has been serving college

students for over ninety years .

Literally thousands of young

people in Arkansas have at one

time held membership at First

Baptist. In fact between four

and five hundred will do so this

year. The corner of College and

Dickson, _ like Markham and

Main, is one of the best known

landmarks in all of A,rkansas

and it is here that the lovely ~

new Sanctuary is located. Many

have said that the interior

brick, a frosty pink, makes the

loveliest surroundings possible

for quiet meditative worship.

Mr. Ray Conn~r, Music Di­

rector, has been notified by the

SBC music department that the

chifrch is one of eight in the

Convention which has been

· acclaimed Advanced Standard . .

Yo·u may wish to join others in

the 80-voice Chancel choir.

The pastor, Dr. Andrew M.

Hall is ih his tenth year. He is

the author of "Directional Sig­

nals on Campus" published by

LeRoi Publishers this year.

First Baptist takes p:ride in her

students. Would you like to be

one of the scores who will be

walking the aisle within the

next three weeks? STUPENTS

GO WHERE STUDENTS GO.

We welcome you.-ADV.

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Departments---...;;._ ____________ ___;_ _____ _ at Immanuel Chur.ch, Little Rock;

Church Music Beginning Primary Festivals: March

State music festivals scheduled EIGHTEEN years ago, Arkansas

Baptists launched one of their finest programs - the Church Music Festival

MR. McCLARD experiences.

Program. ( Forgive me for being preju­diced.) For 13 years, State Junior and Youth Festivals were conducted by the Mu­sic Department · with outstanding directors such as Dr. Warren Angell of 'Oklahoma Baptist University leading our young people to glorious musical and spiritual

My first glimps·e of these festivals was in 1953. !Although I had been in the state for only one month, I decided to take my junior and youth choirs to the state festivals. If you won't tell anyone, I will tell you my first reaction to the list of the festival music I received from the music office. Impossible! Too ' hard! Too much music! · Was I ever wrong! ! To be sure, my choirs did not master all of the notes and rhythms in the four re­hearsals preceding the festival, but it became evident to 111e upon attending the first rehearsal in the festival that the youngsters would not embarrass me as much as I thought at first.

I noted that there was new spirit and enthusiasm that spread like an epi­demic through the youngsters - attend­ing the festival. To make a long story short, would you believe it .when r teH you that when we returned to our church I discovered that 'the young peo­ple not only had learned the music, but that they knew the selections well enough to present them in worship and even to make guest appea.rances in other churches. And to think, I almost made the mistake of not taking my choirs to the festivals!

Now let us · take a look at the festi­vals of· the past few years. It is amaz-· ing to realize that we have grown from. two festivals in 1954 to nine festivals in 1962. The attendance of .choirs and the number of participating choristers has more than tripled in five years. In 1956, 1,467 participated in the State Fes­tivals, and last year, there were 5,555 actual participants, which of course .does not include the parents, the friends and guests attending the festivals.

Perhaps you are asking, why have the music festivals? If so, it is obvious to me that you have never been present for one of the State Festivals. Asking this question is almost like asking, why have graded choirs? or even,. a music minis.­try? For you see, they are so closely re­lated that you can hardly separate the three.

Note the four objectives of the festi -· vals:

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One, to raise the standard of music in all the churches that · it may be m0re 'worthy and acceptable for the worship ::ind praise of Christ, our Saviour.

Two, to acquaint our Baptist churches with the graded choir program and its tremendous potentia l for enlisting peo­ple and training their talents.

Three, to inspire our church musi ­cians to greater appreciation and higher attainments in the church music minis- · try, all to the glory of God.

Four, to acquaint all of our people with the opportunity and importance of singing of th~ message of salvation .as people worship together.

Let me sum up what I am saying about the festivals, or in reality, what · I am saying about the graded choir pro­gram by quoting a pastor of one of the largest churches· in our state. He said that the musi.c ministry, particularly the graded choir program, had done more to hold the people together ancr tie the young people on to the church than any other activity being promoted in that church. Another pastor recer,tiy said he believed the graded choir pro­gram ,was one of the finest programs being puomoted today in the ·south_ern Baptist Convention.

The men who made these statements are known and respected by most of you and are considered to be wise a nd in­telligent church leaders. To be sure, these men were not minimizing the im­portance of the other organizations, but rather were · trying to point up the fact that every church needs a music minis­try that provides a cho,ir for every age group, utilizing the talents of old and young to bring glory to our Lord.

Distance and budget has made it im­possible for many churches to partici­pate in the state festivals. You will be interested to know that our program of expansion of state festivals calls for a primary, junior, youth, and adult .festi­val in every area of the state by the year 1965. This means that we will ex­pand from our present nine festivals to between 16 and 20 festivals in three years·. ·More money and personnel is nec­essary to complete thi.s expansion. The resulting benefit of stronger music min­istry in every church should be worth the expense and effort.

The · Festivals for the c-0ming year are as follows:

.Adult, Feb. 23, at Second Church, Little Rock;

Youth, April 27; First Church, Little Rock;

Junior High, Nov. 2, 1962, Park Hill ·Church, North Little Rock,

The Beg i ri n in g Junior Festivals : March 23, Grand Avenue Church, Fort Smith; March 30, First Church, Jones­boro; and March 23, First Church, North Little Rock;

Advanced Junior Festival, M.arch 30

9, Calvary Church, Fort Smith; March 9, Walnut Street, Jonesborof March 16, Second Church, El Dorado;

Advanced Primary Festival, March 16, Gaines Street Church, Little Rock.­LeRoy McClard, Secretary ·

. Brotherhood

Later than you think? YES, IT is much later th~n you think

if your Brotherhood officers for the new year have not been elected. However,

"!: there is still time 1 for them to be . elect­I ed and trained if you

act now. All / officers of the Brotherhood should be elected in ample time for them to be trained and be prepared to func­tion the first of Oc­tober. · The associational Broth e r h o o d offi-

MR. SEATON cers should schedule and conduct training clinics for church Brotherhood officers in each association. The clinics should be conducted in late Septerriber or as early in October as pos­sible. Even though the officers elected have served before, they should ~ttend the annual training clinic. If the Broth­er hood officers are capable and have

,served well in their position, it is a mark of wisdom to continue them in their present office. Why change each year? Experience counts; so retain ca­pa,ble officers more than one year.

This is a good policy for both asso-' ciations and churches. The officers

elected should begin immediately to plan for the new year. As soon as possi­ble the president should make program assignments so that those responsible for programs will have ample time · to prepare the program.

The Royal Ambas!3ador leader and his Committee will have to provide leader­ship for present Royal Ambassador chapters. If present counselors and as­sistants are working efficiently, they should be retained. However, in many cases a survey will indicate the need for new chapters. The new ·chapters will require new counselors. The counselors need to be· elected and trained before beginning work with the new chapter. Every _ officer and committee of the Brotherhood should be elected, trained, and ready to function by Oct. 1.

If there has been no Brotherhond or Royal Ambassador organization in your church during the past year, now is a good time to organize and promote them. "Every Church Needs a Brother­hood," and at least one Crusader, one Pioneer, and one Ambassador Royal Ambassador Chapter. .

Call on the Brotherhood Department for any assistance we may render to your church.-C. H. Seaton, Assoc~ate Secretary

ARKAN S A.S BA PT I•$ T ·

Training Union

If I were director (Continued from last week)

5. I WOULD see that every union of the Training Union was complet ely or­ganized. By working through the de­

partment directors t he leaders, spon­sor s and pr esidents, we would be able to get t h i s accom­pli shed.

Before April 1 and Oct. 1 of each year every u n i o n should select a nom­nating committee of t h re e responsible members. This com-

MR. DAVIS. mittee could be se-lect ed by the president of the union. At the time of t he selection o'f t he officers the organization chart fo r t he union ,hould be fill ed out. This chart could be filled out by the nominating committee .vhile they are selecting the officers, >r the nominating committee could re-1ort to the union and all of t he officers ·ould meet to fill out t he chart.

Another plan would be for the u~ion o receive the report of t he nominating ommitt ee and then ask the president nd group captains to fill out the or­anization chart. These charts may be rdered from the Baptist Book Store Jr 50 cents per · dozen. They should be osted in t he union room so tha t every tember a t a• glance can see the com­lete organization, including groups and 1mmittees. Every member of the union ould be put on the organiza tion chart. 6. I would see t ha t a schedule was ,llowed each Sunday night in each

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union. It would be well to show an ap­propriate filmstrip on Sunday night schedule once or twice a year in each department. Adults should see the film­strip, "Sunday Night With Adults." There is a filmstrip available for each union. These may be borrowed from the Arkansas Training Union Department.

7. I would inform the Training Union of the six steps in group learning and we would endeavor to put into practice these six steps in order greatly to im­prove our programs. Of course, this would call for ,a monthly planning meet­ing of all the Training Union workers. We would use the program plan sheets which we could secure from the Arkan­sas Training Union Department. These plan sheets give the six steps in pro­gram pl,mning. (Continued next week) - Ralph W. Davis, Secretary

Foundation

Who wrote YOUR will? WHEN you read this question you

might say it does not apply· to you since you have not made a will. But you

do have a will. . Ev­eryone , has a will. Some have taken the time to have one prepared like ' they want it; others hav-e a will written by the laws of the State of Arkansas. T h e s e laws say exactly how property is to be distributed, , and your I o v e d ones

MR. McDONALD cared for at your death. These law,s may or may ndt dis- · pose of your est ate t~e way you would like. Nevertheless, these laws become

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Basic Christian Beliefs Use these books for fourth quarter lessons.

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your will in the absence of a proper ly drawn instrument.

Since you do have a will, you should be sure that it does carry out your wishes. Will your loved ones and minor children receive what you want them to have? Will those minor children be prop­erly cared for in a Christian home? Will God' · Causes be remembered? Only by having a properly drawn will can you be sure.

If you realize the need of a will, you might ask how to start. Your attorney has the answers and training to see that you accomplish your desires. While you might be able to write your own will , this is not wise unless you have the necessary legal training. See an attor­·ney, or if you wish write us for in­formation and help. When you remem. ber Baptist causes, we will have our attorney prepare your will, or, if you

. prefer, will pay your attorney for his work.

. Do not delay! Remember, when you need a will it is too late to make one.­Ed. F. McD9nald, Jr., Secretary

Sunday School

Bonus available , A\ BONUS i!! usually thoug;ht of as

extra pay for extra good work, an extra 'benefit above agreed-upon earnings.

Those who order a Preparation Week package from our office receive a bo­nus. This year it is a pocket-sized mend­ing kit (as long as they last) . Inciden­tally, the cover of the kit ,carries /in­formation about the Annual S u n d a y School Convention or

MR. HATFIELD Workshop. • Two identical workshops will be con­

ducted in October. The first will meet at First Church, Jonesboro, Oct. 8-9. Th~ second will meet at Second Church, Hot Springs, Oct. 11-12.

On the first day of each workshop the program will start at 1 p. m. There will be five sessions and five age group conferences of one hour each. The gen­eral prografll theme will be "Outreach for the . Y.rtreached-Spearhead for Mis­sions." Watch for detailed outline to be published soon.

Another bonus some churches and as­soc\ations ha.ve · earned for key leader_s is a free meal at a Standards and Training Recog(lition Banquet at the workshops. Watch. for specific informa­tion on this bonus to be published soon also.

Another bonus blessing awaits every church which conducts an enrollment campaign. The fall of the year is the best Sunday School enrollment period in the calendar. Write for further in­formation requesting .Qne-for..One ma­terials and use the One-for-One this fall.-Lawson Hatfiel(;l, Secretary ·

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Student Union

Summer work in KAY Glenn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

M. A. Glenn, of Pottsville, and a jun­ior English major from Arkansas State Teachers College, is probably the most prolific correspondent of the six Arkan­sas BSU summer missionaries. She writes:

"We had a real good, jam-packed two days of preparation at Camp Menucha, 23 miles outside f ortland. We had 8 % hours of VBS clinic plus survey con­ferences . plus the usual ·retreat pro­gramming. There are four of us work­.ing in the Portland-Vancouver area.

"I was told about the quality of the Southern Baptist people out here but I had no idea what was meant until I got on the field. ThesJ people are· great. , I feel like I should be a missionary to Arkansas from them, their enthusiasm is so contagious.

"I am playing. the piano in the joint worship service working with the Jun­ior VBS department, and taking census in the afternoon. Then at night we have prayer meetings fo.r the revival which starts the week after VBS is over. Car­olyn Hamil, my partner from Texas,

, and I had charge of .the praiYer meeting Wednesday night, and each spoke for about 15 minutes. We have really plunged into the middle of things.

"I met my first rebuff in · census tak­ing this afternoon. I was just glad it wasn't my first hour as 'well. The lady nearly walked right over me, down the driveway and poljteiy invited me to leave, as she didn't want to talk to me. All the rest were yery polite and .helpful. ·

"GA camp was the richest experience I've had yet, and RA camp the fun­niest. With the girls I was counselor and teacher of nine-year olds, ·as well as banker for miY cabin, and really was challenged by them to fly strictly right. There's nothing like a bunch of adoring little people to make you toe the line. And teaching them Christian witnessing and attitudes required more study from me than anything. I really felt like I grew during that week.

"13eing camp nurse to 87 RAs and 15 counselors was an experience I'll never forget. The ailing and afflicted came pouring in with the force of a tidal wave, beginning Monday afternoon and packed Saturday morning.

"I am now expert at treating, cuts, gashes, bruises, knots on heads, nails in feet, pains in stomachs, aches in heads, insect bites, splinters, poison oak and skinned knees.

"It's simple: I take turns giving them Pepto-Bismol, aspirin, and calamine lo­tion. In serious cases I apply all three and call in the camp missionary for con­sultation. Actually I did call on him at least · twice, once to pass judgment on whether a boy should have a tetanus shot and once to give a hypodermic in­jection.

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Grea,t Northwest

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"This VBS in Washougal, Washing­ton, has been one of the best we've worked in all summer. The mission only has 30 members and we enrolled 73 with an average attendance of 54. The work went very well, and although there were no decisions, I think we have a good foundation now on which to build a Sun­day School.

"They meet in a house and we simply overflowed it, out into a tent. We had to have commencement outside because there wasn't room inside the house. For the first time all summer it began to rain and we had to move inside the tent to finish our program.

"It constantly amazes me how little the bhildren out here know about God and the Bible. We have to start fro m scratch in every department, even Jun­iors and Intermediates. But they're very easy to teach and I love it."- Tom J. Logue, Secretary.

Religious Education

Two great failures LOOKING back over 26 years of pas­

toral experience, there have been two failures which have hur t my ministry

more than others. One was my neglect of my devotional life. The other was my lack of skill in ad­m i n i s t r a t i o n. I would like to speak of this last one a bit.

A pastor in the New Test amen t sense is an adminis­trator. One ·of the de­J;criptive definitions

MR. ELLIFF . of the word "bishop" is "superintendent" or "overseer." Being

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a good overseer was always a chal­lenge to me. We are told a good over­seer must be "gentle, patient, meek, apt to teach, hospitable, etc." These per­sonal requirements humble most of us.

But a pastor must administer the Lord's work. Every pastor has a staff with which to work. It may not be a paid staff. It may be only the Sunday School superintendent, Training Union director and other church leaders·. But these are staff, members and it takes good administrative techniques to pro­duce fruitful staff work.

Most pastors are anxious to learn how to be better leaders. Occasionally a man realizes that his lack of understanding and use of simple leadership techniques may cause frictions to arise and mean less effective work done.

Much help is now a:v.ailable to pastors and churches in this area. Every pastor and chairman of deacons should receive The Church Administration Magazine.

· This is ordered with church literature· from Nashville. The design of this en­tire publication is to help churches of every size with administrative prob­lems.

Here in Arkansas we are planning ex­tensive help for pastors, ministers of music and education, and office secre­taries. At Siloam there will always be help offered. Practically every other meeting of the Religious Education Di-vision will offer help. ·

Write Bro. R. V. Haygood or me if we can be of help to you on an indi­vidual basis.-J. T. Elliff1 Director

Missions-Evangelism

Encouraging reports THE HOT, dry summer we have ex­

perienced has been no hindrance to mis­sions and evangelism. The reports from

over the state indi-cate renewed fervor and interest in both. Pastors are singing praises of their mis­sionaries.

In a recent meet­ing of Ouachita As­sociation the report w~s made that they would ,likely have an all-time high in ·Bap­tisms. "Our mission-

OR. CALDWELL ary has nearly kj]Jed himself," one pastor remarked. "We have had a VBS in all churches but one and our missionary is responsible for getting it done."

In Stone-Van Buren-Searcy Associa­tion the missionary and wife, with some student missionaries, reached ev,ery church and many mission points with VBS.

The . student missionaries in White River Association, who served ten weeks, have returned to their homes praising ·the work of the missionary and rejoicing in the great mission accom­plishments. This association, which

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ke all records in baptisms last year, :.I do t he same again this year. A pastor in Clear Creek Association mmented, "Our missionary is the rdest worker I have ever seen. He is rting the job done." In many of the associations, churches

1 having more conversions in the VBS ~ n in revivals. In a ground-breaking service for a

church in Russellville, a youn g man ho had surrendered to the ministry bile it was a mission gave a brief st imony as to what the mission had eant to him. These new churches and issions are reaching new laborers for e harvest fields. }fountain View Church , A. D. Corder, stor, has started a .good mission with

• enrolled in Sunday School. It was rn through a mission revival in which people were saved.

An inactive church has been revived . Ouachita Association through a re­·val effort that won 12 people to the

' rd. Missionary Al Escott and pastor 'Bard Miller of First Church, Mena, re ·used of the Lord in getting t he

b done. A student missionary was placed in ckville Association, our smallest and

eakest in the state, for specia l serv­es during the summer . He held VBS d revivals in all the churches and 'tnessed several conversions. His car '

~ enses turned out to be as much as ·s salary, but he said , " I am very ppy with the success of my summer ·ssion work. The money was not what was working. for."- C. W. Caldwell, perintendent of Missions

'By all. means win some'

Two bad habit$

ANY of our churches are follow-the latest, up-to-date methods in

r Sunday School Work. There are some churches still p r a C t i C i .n g some things that are hin­dering evangelism. In many churches it

: is easier to join the church than it is to Jorn the S u n d a y School. When - one professes faith in Christ and requests baptism, the church votes him in then ; however many

ches won't let one join the · Sunday ool until hie has attended three , days in succession. hy is this a bad habit? Usually we

't reach people for effective teach­until they are enrolled. The ones are hard to get enrolled by the -Sunday method are the ones that

d the Bible teaching of the Sunday ool t he most. They are usually un­ed people, unaffiliated Baptists or

bers who are cold and indifferent. we after souls or a record? If you the pupil, you get his record.

ember 6 , 1962

Another bad habit is dropping pupils .from the Sunday School roll who miss three or four Sundays. The excuse for t his is, "They are holding down our rec­ord ." If we are more interested in a record than we are people then we had better do away with the r ecord system.

The main· reason, as I see it, for want-. ing to drop some is the teachers don't

want the responsibility of visiting the chronic absentees. Usually, though , they a re the ones who need the most atten­t ion in Bible teaching. They are lost or are weak spiritually. Then, when a re­vival is on, those people are not listed as enr olled in the Sunday School. Too many times they are passed up. Not always, but ordinarily the lost and un­affiliated Baptists enrolled in our Sun­day Schools are our best prospects dur­ing an evangelistic campaign.

Have you ever seen a great Sunday School that deliberately held down the enrollment? No. The Sunday School is designed to reach the , individual for Bible study.

If your Sunday School has these bad habits, why not get your church to vote soon in a business meeting to do away with these practices? Yours for more pupils enrolled and won through the

. Sunday School.-Jesse S. Reed, Director of Evangelism

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Second, it has given me the opportu­nity to rethink some of my concepts of the ministry. I found that the constant burden of schooling and pastoral re­sponsibility over the past 9 years had had some adverse affects upon my min­istry. Some of my concepts were out of focus . Others were immature. I have been able to think through some of the ideas I had stored up for years. I feel that because of this I have come to a clearer understanding of the ministry.

Third, I have come to a new apprecia­tion of the Baptist principle of the au­tonomy of the local church. I have been recommended to several pastorless churclies by some outstanding men. They have included pastors, · denomina­tional workers, evangelists and laymen, but in 11 weeks not a single pulpit com­mittee has contacted me or heard me preach. This in itself is no comfort to me. But it is reassuring to know that it is true now as always that no man, regardless of position, can exercise any authority over a Baptist church. Each church acts in accordapce with its in­t erpretation of the will\ of God.

Fourthly, I have come to appreciate · my brethren in the ministry. Many of them have proven to be real friends. They have ~ept me busy with supply work. Some have spent time and money helping me in seeking a place of serv­ice. Above all, they haver taken time to have fellowship with me in a timf when I needed it most.

I know that the problem of "church­less preachers" is a real one. I know that if a pastor resigns a pastorate without having a place to go that he will face hardship and will find it diffi­cult to find a place of service. I do not advocate that a pastor do this as a gen­eral rule. However, I do feel that it

. would be a profitable experience for every pastor to spend a few months every few years away from the responsi­bilities of the pastorate.-Kelsey Ga!'­man, 914 South 20th Street, · Ft. Smith

REPLY: It may be the Lord will US!?

this letter to get you before some good church looking for a good pastor.-ELM

Making your will I RECENTLY completed the admin­

istration of the estate of one of our members who left all she had to the church. This lady had been a Govern­ment clerk at a modest salary. She had no close relatives' and no depend­ents. Her health had been very poor in the last years of her life, and she had been hospitalized for several extended periods . She never asked for help, al­though the fellowship committee of the deacons had assured her that financial help was available if she needed it.

When I began . the administration of her estate, I soon learned that she had been very thrifty a:nd had managed her personal affairs very well. N otwith­standing the heavy expenses of her last illness, the net estate which the church received was in excess of $10,000.

Where a person has relatives who are dependent on him or her in some measure for support, this ·circumstance should certainly be taken inlo account in making a will. But I do not hesitate to advise clients who have no dependents and no close family ties that they are under no moral obligation to leave their property to some distant relative simply because of the kinship. I point out, too, that in such circumstances the law usu-ally distributes to distant relatives ·the property ,of a person who dies without a will. To the recipient, such a legacy often means only ·~ new car or a vaca­tion in Florida.

There are many Baptists who have no close relatives and who should make the work of the Lord the beneficiary of their estates. To all such I co.mmend the exam­ple of this .wonderful Christian whose stewardship _went on although her life was ended.-Aivin 0. West, Attorney, 1411 K Street, Northwest, Suite 300, Washington 5, D. C.

REPLY: Thanks, Mr. West. Any Bal)­tists of Arkansas interested in willing something to Christian causes or institu­tions may contact Ed F. McDonald, Jr.,

. secretab: of the Arkansas Baptist Foun-dation, 401 West Capitol Ave'., Little Rock.-ELM.

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T e Adventures

AJlison, Zondeivan, 1962, $2.50 Miss Allison writes about the mission

field from experience as well as research. For 15 months she served in the Congo under appointment of the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society before being forced to return to the States be­cause of illness.

In this book, Miss Allisi:m introduces boys and girls to friends in 11 different -foreign countries.

Prayers for Everyone, by Earle H. Mac­Leod, Zondervan, 1962, $1~5 Prayer comes easy to some, more dif­

ficult to others. Sometimes difficulty in prayer is due to failure to engage regu­larly _in th,e pra~tice of prayer .. ~urpose of this volume 1s to help Christians to cultivate the habit of prayer for all of life. The prayers are classified und·er c;.itegorical headings and include per­sonal as well as public prayers.

Brown Shadow, by Craig Massey, Zon­dervan, 1962, $1.95 A sequel to Indian Drums and Broken

Arrows, this book tells the action-filled adventures of Jeff Lockwood in the days following the Revolutionary War, when boys had to become. men in a few short years or fail the tests of frontier living. To adventure is added a touch of ro­mance as Lockwood renews acquaintance with Maud Wats·on, the girl whose life he saved in Indian Drums and Broken Arrows.

Lest the Harvest Be Not Grapes, by Etta Caldwell Harris, Ham·burg, pub- · lished by Allard House, Little Rock, 1960, $3.50 ' ·We are glad to add this book of

poetry by a well known Arkansas pen­woman to our Arkansas Bookshelf.

Mrs. Harris writes that the title for this volume ' is from one of her poems, "Scars and Scrapes," carried several years ago in the Arkansas Baptist. The opening stanza is: Scars and scrapes of life and living Ma\ce· the kind heart more forgiving, Make the one who's bravely trying Help the one who's sadly sighing­Make one careful where he's going And the kind of seed he's !!Owing,

Lest the harvest be not grapes­Only more of scars and scrapes. Mrs. Harris has a rare ability for tak-

ing little experiences of everyday life­Arkansas life, if you please - and using them to speak to the souls of her readers.

Time Out, by Al Bryant, Zo.ndervan, 1961 , $1.95 This little book is made up of daily

devotions for young people. The para­graphs are brief but should provide ample incentive for meditation through­out the day, encouraging the reader to increase the quantity ·and quality of his quiet time with the Lord.

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You Can Witness with Confidence, by Rosalind Rinker, Zondervan, 1962, $1.95 Miss Rinker has served on the mis­

sion fields of China, where she worked with the Oriental Missionary Society, and has spoken extensively in churches in the United States. In this book she shares her wide and varied experiences as a witness for Christ.

. . Two Together, by Robert C. Dodds, Crowell, paperback 1962 from a book first published in 1959

Both the spi.ritual and practical as­pects of marriage are treated at length by the Rev. Mr. Dodds, general direc­tor for planning at the National Coun-

. cil of Churches of Christ in America. The book is written in language easily grasped by the average reader.

~eaeoc LUJM4 o/ ~4pt'4t ~'4t'o1J9

By BERN ES K. SELPH . Th. D . . Pas tor, 1s t Bapt is t Church, Benton

first president ISAAC C. Perkins was elected

the first president of the ,A.rkansas Baptist Convention organized at Tulip, 1848.

Much credit fa due this humble, devoted servant of Christ from Mine Creek (now Nash­ville) . He had a large family be­fore he learned to .read. With little formal training he

OR. SELPH entered the field (south Arkansas) alone to pro­claim the gospel of Christ. · For months, even years, he served with­out seeing the face of·.a fellow Bap­tist minister. He travelled as much as 5,000 miles annually without re­ceiving a dollar in compensation.

At the organizational meeting Mr. Perkins was appointed Gen- · eral Agent of the Convention: His duties were to serve as missionary and .to take offerings for the work. Later in the year, the Executive

, Board appointed two other agents and several missionaries to assist him;

These. workers made an encour­aging report at the Convention which met with the Mt. Zion church, Hempstead County, not far from Washington, 1849. Over 50 people had been baptized and $752 collected that year.

It was the custom at that time for the State Convention to send delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention. Rev. Perkins was one of the three selected in 1850 to at­tend the Southern Baptist Conven­tion, meeting in Nashville, Tenn., the following May.

He was chairman of the Com­mittee on Sunday Schools at the 1850 Convention which met at Mt. Bethel church near Arkadelphia.

Dr. J. S. ,Rogers gives a partial report of this committee in his History of Arkansas Baptists, p. 457. Some excerpts are worth re­peating: "Ignorance is no longer regarded as the mother of devotion. But on the contrary experience teaches that ignorance engenders infidelity and leads to every form and degree of yice and immorality.

"The great obligation of training children in the nurture and ad­monifion of the Lord rests mainly upon parents; and God will doubt­less hold them accountable for the faithful performance of this highly important duty."

Order from or visit your BAPTIST BOOK STORE today.

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ildren's Nook·--------------.---------our tongue· Apple for the teacher

fool you By 'EDYTHE KOERZENDORFER

By NICK KOZMENIUK

our five senses, hearing, sight, -ch, taste, and smell, the trickiest is e sense of taste. To prove this, next,

e you have to take a medicine that - a bad taste, hold your nose tightly.

__ en swallow the medicine. Unless you :e an extraordinary person you will -te nothing at all. The sense of taste is unreliable in it­

. Actually, the nose plays a most por tailt part in determining whether mething will to you taste bad or good. The taste buds in the tongue can dis-guish four distinct tastes: sweet,

lty, sour, and bitter. These taste buds e located at the front, the middle, d the back of the tongue. You can experience any of these stes by touching the various parts . of

· e tongue with a small, sterilized glass and rubbing the buds. They in turn

nsmit their message to the brain. en the brain tells you a thing "tastes" eet or sour or whatever else the case

ay be. The taste buds in each of us are sensi­

·ve. They can easily be knocked out of iommission. Chilling the tongue with an e cube will render them useless. Fear d excitement will produce the same

effect. Excited people will not know hether they are eating horse meat or

aviar. A tired, ha'rassed businessman 'll peck away at his food and then onder what he has eaten. A baby accustomed to warm milk will mplain when given milk that is cool. We, .too, know the difference. Vari-

us foods and drinks are best only at cer tain temperature. Take grapefruit ice as an example. Cold, it is delicious; arm, it becomes less agreeable. And ho likes lukewarm soda pop? To further prove the statement that e nose is an important factor in taste,

try the following: Blindfold a person. hile he holds his nose tightly, feed

im some ice cream. Ask him whether · is vanilla or chocolate. He will not

ow, for the senses of sight and smell re cut off, leaving the sense of taste one to determine the flavor of the ice

ream. The sense of sight is cut off to revent seeing the color of the ice earn. So you see, it is mainly the sense

f smell that tells the difference. In a recent test, some three thousand rsons were given tastes of sugar. ey were not told what it was. After

ey had taken it, they were asked what te they had ·experienced. Only one

t of three said it was sweet. Others id it tasted bitter; some claimed salty; d yet others said they tasted nothing all.

Someday, perhaps, scientists will dis­ver t hat, just as· there are color-blind rsons, so are there also "taste-blind"

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ACROSS 2. Space between rows of desks 7. Company (abbreviation) 8. Rips

10. Parent-Teacher Association (abbreviation)

11. Number before two · 13. Thomas Edison's initials 15. Indian tribe 17. Opposite of yes 18. One who camps 20. Shushing sound 21. You study from this 22. Us 23. T-housands of years 24. Railroad (abbreviation)

DOWN 1. Starts in September 3. One who catches others in tag 4. Month school starts

Drip-dry leaves By THELMA C. CARTER

, YOU have heard of drip-dry fabrics . You probably have a drip-dry shirt or blouse. You know how quickly they shed wateri

Do ·you know that Nature has drip­dz,y methods for her natural world? The leaves of trees are well known for their

· drip-dry or "drip tip" patterns. Some are narrow, pointed, and curved down so that water sheds quickly.

In the tropics, where jungle trees and shrubs are especially dense, are giant trees with ·great leaves. It is important that the leaves be drip-dry when jungle torrents of rainfall come.

If water stayed on leaves, decay would begin and insects would move in

5. Tardy 6. Age, period of time 9. School' ipstructor

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home-- . 16. Georgia (abbreviation) 17. Kind of electric light 19. Opposite of rich 20. Southwest (abbreviation)

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to destroy the foliage and trees. Through the wonder of drip-dry leaves,' the rain soaks into the earth to thit sty tree roots.

If you have a willow, black walnut, hickory, or chest.nut tree in the area of your home, you can see the wonder of leaves shedding rainfall.

Some thick, fleshy tree leaves c1:1rve upward, so that they can drink in every tiny bit of moisture. Lettuce and cab­bage plants, with their curved, cup­shaped leaves, are so created to hold rainfall. ·

All living things, including plant leaves, have certain m1ss10ns in our wondrous natural world. Take a mo­ment to look at the patter n of leaves about you. You'll agree with the psalm­ist : "Marvellous !\re thy works" (P salm 139:14).

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P ~ ge Twenty-One

· Sunday School Lesson----------------­

Faith to rebuild By B. G. HICKEM

Pastor, First Church, Crossett

September 9, 1962 Bible References: Haggai; Zachariah 4 :6-10; 8 :18-22

As we/ begin this lesson it is good for us to remember that Haggai and Zech­ariah begin their ministry before Ezra­

and Nehemiah have reorganized the Jew­ish church and state. Therefore, we find o u r s e 1 v e s being taught by two men who have the diffi. cult and thankless task or trying to re­vive a broken and de­jected people.

The Jews who re­turned from Babylon

MR. HICKEM to Jerusalem in 538 B. C. laid the foundations for the Tem­ple, as we saw in our lesson last week, but the rebuilding hardly proceeded be­yond that stage. It was not until 620 B. C. that the work was resumed. Hag­gai and Zechariah were the two pro­phetic preachers who spa),'ked the re­vival which led to the completion of the Temple, and their ministry is to be dated in 520 B . .C., and' in the immediate­ly following years.

The unfinished Temple was a great symbol of the uncertain and dangerous spiritual state of the Jewish community in this post-exile period. The exiles had come home with high hopes of finding the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy concerning a glorious new kingdom,. with an abundant land, and surplus wealth; but, instead, they found hard realities which seemed the very contra­diction of their hopes:

Judah continued to be a very tiny drop in the Persian · bucket, with no hope of independence. The inhabitants around them were hostile and placed stumbling blocks in their path of radiant hope. With this in mind we come now to our p·rophets:

Haggai, the revival prophet

THE two chapters of this little. book are addressed to the needs of the post-·

· exilic period, and contain four separate speeches. In chapter 1, and verse 1, we find the date of the prophecy as being in the second year of Darius I; 520 B .. 0. He had followed Cambyses, who was the successor of Cyrus.

The prophecy is addressed to Zerub­babel and Joshua as leaders of the com­munity, but it is to all the people. Ze­rubbabel was the grandson of Jehoiachin and so a member of the Davidic line.

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Though his position under the Persians is not clear, we know that he held some official position. Joshua was an Aaron­ite priest, and by the prophecies of our lesson we can see how the leadership of Judah was moving toward the priest­hood.

The message of the book is quite point­ed and clear. It is apparent that the more prosperous among the Jews are making provision for themselves, while the Temple lies in ruins (1:4). 'They rationalize this disparity by saying the time is not right to build the house of the Lord (l:2).

It is amazing how many people be­come sacrificial when you ·start a build­ing program for the Lord. Why, mqst of them would be willing to continue to meet on

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a log, or in the "old house where daddy worshipped." But none of them care to live on a log, or live in the old house where daddy us~d to live. These same people want the best car, best house, and all the convenience and com­fort they and the finance company can afford.

We need to stop lying to God, others, and self. As long as we are content with what ' we have been given, it costs us nothing. That's why the "old" building and program is good enough!

To Haggai, this situation was a symp­tom of their total religious failure. The. issue was not just the building itself, but rather what is meant in the realm of sacrificial service. Every man was putting a high priority on his own self­islt concern and acting as though he could live with,out a center of life, as though Judah could survive as a national community without an organizing, in­tegrating focus of worship and order (1:9). , .

Haggai declares that what they are attempting is impossible. He calls them to "consider· your ways . . ."· and see how miserable their achievements, how prevalent their misfortunes (1:5f., 9-10). He reminds them that the hand of God is upon them, and until first th.ings come first, al,l their prosperity will pass.

Haggai's message fell on repenting hearts and according to verses 12-lo, Zerubbabel and Joshua rallied the peo­ple and work on the Temple was re­sumed in that year. The rest of Haggai's prophecies concern problems whicp. the people faced as they worked and the fu­ture destiny of Zerubbabel. (By the way,' after much research I am led to be­lieve that Haggai's first and middle names w~te not, John Edmond. This Haggai apifoears only in the 20th cen­tury.)

Zechariah, Haggai's co-worker

HAGGAI'S contemporary and co­worker during . this same period w~ Zechariah. Concerned with the laxne~ in the life of the Jewish people, he ad­dressed himself to the task of prophecy­ing for the Lord, but in a much differ­ent manner than that of Haggai.

The book opens with a call to repent­ance, and then comes a series of oracles telling of visions given to Zechariah by night. The strange and inspiring events symbolize the meaning of his message. In his use of imaginative symbols, he is one of . the early prophets of the apocalyptic style; he speaks in the same manner of Daniel and John · on the Isle of Patmos. There are eight of the "night visions," and they compose most of Zechariah's prophecy, running through chapter 6. The passage selected for study I comes from the fifth vision, which appears in chapter 4.

Chapter 4 is composed of two parts, the visfon itself (verses 1-5, lOb-14), and the special WOJ:'.d concerning Zerub­babel ( verses 6-lOa), As in all the vi­sions, an angel awakens Zechariah, and

· interprets the strange sight. In this case, Zecli,ariah sees a candlestick with seven branches, and on each of the branches there are seven places for lights, so that each light· is multiplied seven times. And the candlestick has its own bowl~ a reservoir from whi~h its oil is supplied. On each side of the candlestick are two olive trees or branches.

The angel explains that these two olive .trees represent king and priest, Zerubbabel and Joshua. The candlestick seems to stand for the Temple, which bears the presence of the Lord, for the lights are his eyes which see all things

. on earth. King and priest stand on each side and · are instruments of God's will.

The vision declares the mutual de­pendence of priest and king upon Al­mighty God. The Temple, or divine wor­ship, shall be the place where God meets man and man meets God; and priest and king, along with the people, be­come servants of the Most High.

How different our world would be today if our "elected officials" and our "clergy" would take time for genuine worship, It is really a crying shame that · some of our "elected officials" are so busy that they cannot come to wor­ship services, except during the elec­tion period. "God bless them," some of them even become so sacrificial that they give "donations" during these "deeply religious days."

We "members of the cloth" have very little more to boast about. We are so -busy trying to "re-say" what someone else has said, that we have forgotten, •t. , . thus saith the Lord."

The simple truth of the matter is, when the church is praying, and the state is praying, the Lord GQd of hosts, is leading. ·

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The special word for Zerubbabel con­tains the famous verse, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (Zech. 4:6). The earthly · obstacles standing in the way of Zerubbabel as leader of Judah seemed a great, insurmountable moun­tain ( v. 7) and they were not · to be overcome by human resources. God's spirit working in his anointed is the power which would level every obstacle. Zerubbabel would place the final stone on the Temple (v. 7) and see it com­pleted (v. 9). Then, multitudes . would come · from every part of the earth to know the God of the Jews (8:22).

How tragic, their failure caused the multitudes to go in opposite directions. This lesson causes us to realize that when Christian people are wholly fol­lowing after the Lord, Jesus Christ, de­feat is impossible, victory is assured, and people from every land will know Him as Saviour.

Attendance Report

August 26, 1962 Church Sunday Training Addi-

School Union tlons Alpena, First 63 39

Osage Mission 32 Alma, Killler 136 .86 Beirne, First 73 40 Berryville, Freeman Heights 135 68 Camden

Cullendale, First 602 241 3 First 472 160

Crossett, First 641 188 El Dorado

East Main 260 134 1 First 799 224 2

Northside Chapel 42 Fayetteviile, Providence 84 46

Mission 26 18 Fisher, First 119 64 Fordyce, First 349 126 Forrest City, First 667 164

Midway Mission 69 Fort. Smith

Calvary 398 141 Grand Avenue 607 246 1

Mission 25 Temple 261 129 Trinity 128 276

Gravel Ridge, First 193 107 9 Gurdon, Beech St. , 180 66 Harrison, Eagle Heights 276 120 2 Heber Springs, First 198 102 6

Mission 27 Hot Springs, Park Place 411 140 1 Huntsville 102 60 2

Combs Mission 22 18 Kingston Mission 17 19

Jacksonville First 642 237 Second 173 73 6

Little Rock First 872 364 6

Berea Chapel 104 66 White Rock 38 23

Immanuel 1102 3!16 8 Forest Tower 37 27 Kerr 43 33 2

Rosedale 263 116 13 Marked Tree, First -1~1 69 1 McGehee, First 430 196

Chapel 65 40 North Little Rock

Baring Cross 713 227 3 Southside Mission 39 26 Camp Robinson 77 47

Calvary 384 100 6 Levy 652 202 1 Park Hill 717 221 5

Smackover, 'First 317 147 Mission 40 13

Springdale Caudle Ave. 141 71 Elmdale 113 57 First 387 124

Trumann, Corner's Chapel 166 -102 Tyronza, First 164 69 Van Buren

First 446 163 4 Oak Grove 178 88

September 6' 196 .Z,

A Smile or Two Quick acting

"DO you guarantee results in your nerve treatment?" asked the prospective patient.

Specialist--"! do. Why, a man came to me for nerve treatment, and when I had finished with him he tried to borrow $50.00."

Yul like this one ! CUSTOMER: "How much for a hair-

cut?" Barber: "A dollar fifty." Customer: "How much for a shave?" Barber: "Seventy-five cents." Customer: "0 .. K. Shave my head!"

What's in a na,me IMPATIENT diner: "Look here, wait­

er, I ordered chicken pie, but there isn't a bit of chicken in it!"

Waiter: "That's all right, sir. We also have cottage cheese, but so far as I know, there's no cottages in it."

When the bloom is off SAID the frustrated young mother as

she heard her children crying and looked over her dirty house: "Sometimes I wish I'd loved and lost."

Simple arithmetic TEACHER: If you had three apples

and ate one, how many would you have then?

Johnny: Three. \ Teacher: How do you figure that? Johnny: Two outside of me and one.

inside of me.

Tim~'s awastin' "WHERE shall we meet?" "Anywhere you like." "And what time?" "Whenever it suits you." "Very well - but let's be punctual."

Jet-propelled "WHY do doll"rs. have eagles on

them?" , "They're symbolic of swift flight."

Train of thought "BIDDY," says Pat timidly, "did you

iver think o' marryin' ?" "Shure, now," says Biddy, looking de­

murely at her shoe, "sure, now, the sub­ject has niver entered me mind at all, at all."

"It's sorry Oi am," says Pat, turning away.

"Wan minute, Pat," says Biddy softly, "ye've set· me thinkin'."

Fell flat TOMMY was shopping for his sister.

"I'd like a box of . powder," he said to the ' clerk.

"Certainly," the clerk replied, and aim­ing to have a joke, he added, "do you want the kind that goes off with a bang?" ·

"No," Tommy answered, "the kind that goes on with a puff."

INDEX A

Alaska, joins state missions plan-9-6 p15 Albany, Ga., racial strife-9-6 94 Austin & Lackey, new assignments-9-6 pl5 Arkansans to Mexico- 9-6 plO Attendance report- 9-6 p23

B Bonus available-9-6 pl 7 Bookshelf- 9-6 p20 Brotherhood Dep't.- 9-6 pl6

C Children's Nook- 9-6 p21 Cole, Minor retires- 9-6 plO Cossey, J. I. 'paragraphs'-9-6 pll Counseling help for pastors-9-6 p3

E . Eye center opens ABH-9-6 plO

F Faith to rebuild (SS)-9-6 p22 First president ABSC (BL)- 9-6 p20

G Garners on furlough (lett~r)-9-6 p5

• H Harvill, J. T., mission chaplain-9-6 p9 Hospital thoughts (letter)-9-6 p5

I If I were director-9-6 pl 7 In an old book (PS)-9-6 p5 ' L Lindquist, Dr. Cyril, at OBC-9-6 p8 L<\rd, teach us to pray (CMH)-9-6 p6

M Making your will (letter)-9-6 p19 Miracles, Baptist beliefs-9-6 p7 Missions-Evangelism- 9-6 i:118 Moore, John, ordained-9-6 p8 Monticello 'thanks (letter)-9-6 p5

, 0 Ouachita honor roll- 9-6 p9

p People on Venus? (E)-9-6 p4 Pet Peeves of an old preacher-9-6 p2 Poll tax, do away with (E)-9-6 p4 Prayer ruling, Bapt. papers stand-9-6 p14 Preacher Poet-9-6 p7 Preacher sans church (letter)-9-6 p5

R Revivals-9-6 p9 Rewards in public (GL)-9-6 1>7

s Smile or two--9-6 p23 State music festivals-9-6 p16 Stewardship emphasis (Ex. Bd.)-9-jl p2 Summer work in Northwest-9-6 pl8 '

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No Amish exemption WASHINGTON, D. C. (EP)­

Members of the Joint Senate­House Conference Committef. have not exempted Old Order Amish folk from pr.ovisions of the na­tion's Social Security system - in spite of the latter's strong objec­tion to participating in the system.

The Committee deleted from the Public Welfare Amendments Act of 1962 the amenqment which was passed by the Senate as part of a legislative "package." It was dropped as "'inappropriate."

Sen. Robert S. Kerr (Dem.­Okla.) , chairman of the" commit-· tee, told the Senate in his report of the meeting: "The pro-vision al­lowing the optjon of voluntary cov­erage for certain members of re­ligious sects who are self-employed was eliminated, because its consid­eration was mbre appropriate to a bill which relates to Title II of the Social Security Act than to one relating exclusively to public wel-fare." '

This means, he said, that an amendment will have to be drafted to the Social Security Act. There is currently one bill in the Senate and three bills in the House, all held in committee, which w o u 1 d grant Social Security exemption to the conservative Old Order Amish.

Poland seizes schools WARSAW (EP) - All schools

and orphanages in Poland now op­erated by monks and nurts will be taken over by the Education Min­istry within a year. · So stipulates a law enacted by

· parliament. Officials of the Com­munist regime said they ordered deputies to proceed with gentle­ness and tact. They said members of religious orders will be given othei' jobs, such as taking care of special institutes for backward chiltlren, for old people, and f o r those who are hopelessly ill.

'Martin Luther' film MONTREAL (EP) - The film

story of Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther may be shown again in the Province of Quebec after a nine-year ban.

The new Quebec Film Censor­ship rBoard, made up entirely of Roman Catholics, lifted the ban when Maurice Leroux, head of the new board, said it is "incompre­hensible" to him that the film should be barred from public showings in Quebec theaters.

"Martin Luther is an historical figure," he said, "and a personali­ty whose story on film should be al­lowed universal showing."

Settle church suit WICHITA, Kan. (EP) - The

minority faction, which is loyal to the American Baptist Convention, has been given charge of the $2;-500,000 property of the First Bap­tist Church here, bringing to an end a two-year legal battle over control of the church.

The split in the congregation . which once numbered about 4,000 was completed when some 1,400 member,s of the church's anti-ABC majority group met for Sunday services at a local high school.

Control of the property went to the minority faction after the Kan­sas Supreme Court refused an ap­plication for a rehearing on its May ruling that the church could

· not withdraw from the ABC and related groups even though a ma­jority of . the congregation voted for such an action.

Reversing a decision of a state district court, the Supreme Court declared that "not even in an auto­nomous Baptist church may the de­nomination of the c h u r ch be changed by mere majority vote."

Mennonite conference KITCI!ENER, Ont (EP) - The

7th Mennonite World Conference here drew some 3,500 delegates and . visitors from 25 countries for ses­sions under the theme : "The Lord­ship of Christ." It was the first o.f .the Mennonite Conferences to be held in Canada. The Mennonite World Brotherhood has about 400,- · 000 members in 30 countries.

World Bible reading CHRISTIANS in America are

being urged to join with Christians in fifty other countries in the 19th annual program of Worldwide Bi­ble R e a d i n g, sponsored by the American Bible Society.

Every day, from Thanksgiving . to Christmas, in what has been called "the world's largest Bible reading class," millions of people throughout the world will read simultaneously a pre-selected pas­:sage from the Bible, each in his own language.

The suggested readings · are list­ed in the Worldwide Bible Read­

·ing bookmark, of which over thir­teen million copies ·are distributed free each year in English alone.

A sample bookmark is included in a free . 'packet of Worldwide Bi­ble R~ading m a t e r i a l s being mailed this month to about 180,000 pastors. If your church has not re­cei.ved its packet by Sept. 30, you can get one by writing the Amer­ican Bible Society, 450 Park Ave­nue, New York 22, N.Y.

The bookmarks are intended for widescale distribution, before

· Thanksgiving D a y, to church members and others in every local community.

The packet also includes a poster emphasizing this year's theme, "The Bible· - Word of Power," a sample bulletin insert for Univer­sal Bible Sunday, the second Sun­day in December, and a brochure

· with sermon suggestions. '